https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167

--- Comment #36 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Quim Gil from comment #33)
> Then the part about categories... it is really a very different problem.
> First let me note that the initial reporter didn't mention categories in the
> title or comment 0, this was added by another user later on. Editors use
> HotCat, aren't they happy with it? Enabling HotCat in MediaWiki is simple.
> Someone asked that such functionality should be included in Core. However,
> the trend is not to inject more features in our already big MediaWiki Core,
> but user extensions et al to bring more functionality.
> 
> 
> For these reasons I believe this 2004 report could be resolved as FIXED in
> 2014.

I agree with Quim. Using Wikibase and VisualEditor is a reasonable way to solve
these problems today. They can be installed on any wiki and they are not
specific to Wikipedia. Working on adding this functionality to core when we
already have extensions that do it fairly well is wasteful.

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