https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59108

MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |tracking
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
                 CC|                            |[email protected],
                   |                            |[email protected],
                   |                            |[email protected]
                   |                            |rg
            Summary|Display filters and         |Display filters and
                   |settings on category pages  |settings on category
                   |                            |description pages (filter
                   |                            |category membership)
                   |                            |(tracking)
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #5 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to sju-w from comment #0)

Hi. Thank you for filing this bug report!

Yes, we definitely need to be able to filter categories (i.e., category
membership). Just today I wanted to find all pages in [[Category:Living
people]] with particular prefixes. I think this is currently possible with the
MediaWiki Web API, but it's tedious. I could not find a way to do it from the
GUI at <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Living_people>. I
ended up querying a database replica directly. Ouch.

For this bug, I think you've run into the issue of trying to eat an elephant
(or even talking about eating an elephant...) in a single bite (one big,
complicated bug report). This is fine, kind of, but it means this report will
be a tracking bug (also sometimes called a collection report or ticket), with
specific sub-tasks. One task will be adding a filter toggle to category
description pages. Another will be implementing the ability to filter to only
files or only articles or whatever (filtering by namespace). Another will be
implementing the ability to filter files only by file MIME(?) type or file name
suffix. Another report might focus on the ability to save specific
filters/views/searches to your individual user account or share that
filter/view/search with other users.

Some of these ideas will almost certainly already have bug reports, of course,
but I don't currently see a tracking bug for the general idea and this one
seems like a perfect fit.

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