Hold on, are we talking about removing Special:Allpages altogether or just disabling the hierarchical view? If it's the former, It's not OK. Even for large wikis, it allows you to see near-by pages, such as pages with different diacritic signs, but which denote the same subject.
Strainu 2013/11/13 Dan Garry <[email protected]>: > Tim made the point that for a wiki with a very small set of pages (say, 100 > pages) pages, Special:Allpages can be useful as it lets you get an overview > of the content of the wiki. That's obviously not too applicable to wikis > like the English Wikipedia, especially if it's creating a lot of > performance issues. > > Dan > > > On 13 November 2013 11:02, Bartosz Dziewoński <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:36:02 +0100, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From my perspective, the ideal outcome of this discussion would be >>> that we agree that the hierarchical list is a poor fit for the >>> MediaWiki of today, and we resolve to remove it from core. >>> >> >> +1. I've never understood what purpose the Special:Allpages layout was >> supposed to serve. >> >> -- >> Matma Rex >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager for Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
