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

--- Comment #3 from [email protected] ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> >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.
> 
> ----
> 
> 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.

One further point to extend my suggestion above- it would also be good if there
was some form of url that could go to a specified category with this suggested
recursive option enabled. If this was so then hand-constructed indexes, such as
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Contents/Indexes]] could be largely
replaced by such links to the appropriate category. Also, portals could include
such a link   to give an (automatically generated) exhaustive index to their
respective articles. So even for readers who do not use the category system,
this enhancement  could allow enhanced browsing for them.

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