It's the latter; the hierarchical list will not be displayed if there are over 50,000 pages.
See the relevant bug <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56840> and the relevant patch <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95085/> for more information. Dan On 13 November 2013 12:24, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager for Platform Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
