Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Categories/Make it easier to add links
Make it easier to add links
- Problem: It is boring to keep on going to the edit page when you want to add a category.
- Proposed solution: Make HotCat a native feature.
- Who would benefit: Ordinary Wikipedians.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Bli231957 (talk) 20:45, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
Discussion
- HotCat exists, maybe it is good enough? The Tips of Apmh (talk) 21:06, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
- Indeed, HotCat is the go-to solution for this. The only barrier is that it's a gadget that must be installed on your wiki by a local interface admin. However we can help make it into an extension, or even build it into MediaWiki itself. I'm quite in favor of that, actually. @Bli231957: Questions for you: (1) are you familiar with HotCat, and if so, (2) would you like to reword this proposal to be about promoting HotCat into a native feature? MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 21:31, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
- I think HotCat should be automatically used, for convenience. Thingofme (talk) 02:42, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
- You're looking for Hotcat. For similar tools see this Wikipedia category.Dunutubble (talk) 23:36, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
- The category system is ostensibly reader-focused but in practicality viewed often by editors. This combination makes it one of the worst places for prioritizing reader needs. I'd love to see HotCat improved (it has a very bad habit of mysteriously dropping some categories when I click save), but should be opt-in, not visible to all readers by default, as many may have no interest in category editing. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 00:37, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- +1. Side-note, I also noted the common bug that categories get mysteriously dropped during HotCatting, but I couldn't reproduce situations so far, or I would have made it a ticket already. --Enyavar (talk) 11:51, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- i agree with promoting Hotcat into a native Feature, however it shouldn't be visible to all users, users whose interest in editing/improving categories should be able to Enable/disable the feature on Preferences. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 18:24, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- +1. Side-note, I also noted the common bug that categories get mysteriously dropped during HotCatting, but I couldn't reproduce situations so far, or I would have made it a ticket already. --Enyavar (talk) 11:51, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Voting
- I encourage everyone voting for this to vote for Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Categories/Turn Cat-a-lot into a MediaWiki extension, an equivalent proposal in order to centralize votes. EpicPupper (talk) 22:44, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Cataleirxs (talk) 20:46, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support LevandeMänniska (talk) 22:42, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support --NGC 54 (talk|contribs) 23:05, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support — SHEIKH (Talk) 12:37, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support BSMIsEditing (talk) 15:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support — T@hmid (T@lk) 16:21, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support ClausNe (talk) 19:27, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Hkkbs (talk) 21:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Douglasfugazi (talk) 21:10, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support —— Eric Liu(Talk) 07:59, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support --Lenny Marks (talk) 10:40, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Thingofme (talk) 11:08, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support BugWarp (talk) 02:27, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Bli231957 (talk) 16:58, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ju Mdz (talk) 16:17, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Hampcky (talk) 15:26, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support for making HotCat a native feature — DaxServer (talk · contribs) 18:26, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support ScientistBuilder (talk) 01:31, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support - Darwin Ahoy! 01:58, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support for making HotCat a native feature, especially on Timeless which isn't currently compatible with it Exilexi (talk) 17:27, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Yup, a HotCat support for Timeless would be desirable since I use Timeless skin.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 03:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 05:20, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Toadspike (talk) 01:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support making HotCat an extension. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 23:07, 7 February 2022 (UTC) - Support Having HotCat as a native feature would be so useful !--Eunostos (talk) 07:06, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support 4nn1l2 (talk) 16:04, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Meiræ 22:15, 10 February 2022 (UTC)