https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43424

--- Comment #2 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to comment #1)

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> The additional problem with this is to what extent does one recurse into
> subcategories. Do you want all the articles in the subcategories of the
> subcategory as well? and so on.

Yes, it should list all the articles in all the subcategories, recursively. The
use-case is when I, for example, want to look at *all* computing articles in
alphabetical order, so I go to category "computing" and select this suggested
option. 
(I should have made that clear in my original suggestion.)

> >Technically I imagine this would be straightforward
> 
> You would be surprised ;) This is actually kind of hard to do (efficiently)
> given the way categories are currently stored.

Given the above answer, could the recursively collapsed one-level view not be
precomputed (say nightly) and then quickly displayed?
(it wouldn't matter if it could be slightly out of date, although the kess the
better of course).

I think it would be worth investigating, as the use case I give above is
actually the most common usage of categories for me, and I do think if this
option was available then the category system would be more useful, and be used
more.

Thanks for you comments.

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