https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27312
Summary: Improve interface for adding categories to a page in
MediaWiki core
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: User interface
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Currently in MediaWiki, adding categories requires knowing obscure and esoteric
code (as well as knowing which categories already exist on the wiki). This
sucks. For geeks and other techies, it makes sense, but for regular people,
they want to know why MediaWiki doesn't have a drop-down or suggestion system
of some kind. And they want to know why they're required to manually type out
the code and full category name, when plenty of other sites have features such
as textarea tab-completion or auto-suggest or whatever else. The regular folks
are right: a proper interface for adding categories is missing currently.
One option to resolve this bug might be to examine integrating something
similar to HotCat (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat>) into
MediaWiki core. Other options will require more thought and development time.
This is a serious interface issue, however, and I can't find any duplicates
after a quick search of the database, so I'm logging this for now.
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