It certainly can be done (and done without need for silverlight) on smallish categories (to pull numbers out of a hat, things with less than 1000 pages probably would be fine).
I doubt the silverlight control would work with a category that has a million entries in it (and yes there are categories that big) -bawolff On 2013-04-11 11:56 AM, "Small M" <smallma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > One of the demo collections originally shown in pivot was wikipedia article's sorted by category. Though the collections are no longer up, you can see videos at: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZuFUZpEZ-A?t=2m30s > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxCvdoXpwM > > It was done before (albeit using a dedicated viewer which is now a silverlight control). So it can be done. > -Small > > ________________________________ > From: Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> > To: Small M <smallma...@yahoo.com>; wikitech-l < wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Sort on category > > > On 2013-04-10 10:25 PM, "Small M" <smallma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Are there any plans to have a tool that would allow to dynamically sort content based on category? Single category views, especially for large categories, aren't particularly helpful. > > > > > > Something similar to what Microsoft's pivot demo had? > > > > An HTML5 example at: > > http://pivot.lobsterpot.com.au/pass2012.htm > > > > -Small > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > No, there are no current plans for doing this. Interesting idea though. If I understand you correctly you want a category page where things are grouped by what other categories a page is a member of. > I don't think such a thing can be done in an efficient manner for big categories given the way category membership is currently stored. > -bawolff > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
