Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Option to show changes from subcategories when viewing related changes of a category

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Option to show changes from subcategories when viewing related changes of a category

Problem: Using the Special:RelatedChanges page of a Category shows the changes related to the pages contained in that category.
Proposed solution: However, for some patrollers, it may be beneficial to control edits from a parent category.
Who would benefit: Patrollers and users
More comments: For example, if I wanted to check all the changes related to the London category and its subcategories, at the moment I can't do it, I have to manually check each category, while it would be useful to have a setting which, once activated, allows me to see the changes made even in subcategories.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: --Mannivu · ✉ 19:02, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Mannivu: Thanks for sharing this suggested improvement. Could you clarify the proposed solution? I think what you mean is that, when using Special:RelatedChanges for a category, you would like the option to also display changes from subcategories - is that right? One top-of-mind concern I'll just note on this is that MediaWiki categories can be circular and/or incredibly deep, so this might need to be limited to direct subcategories. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:26, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Samwalton9 (WMF) yes, my idea is that I'd like to have an option that the user can activate in order to see the changes from subcategories of a given category. Maybe it could also let the user set a deep option (i.e. 2 for the direct subcategories and their subcategories). --Mannivu · ✉ 13:37, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So far RelatedChanges does not even seem to support transclusions, which (unlike subcategories) is included in Special:WhatLinksHere. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 16:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support with an option to set levels deep to include Joshbaumgartner (talk) 21:45, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose some categories can be very deep and all of this is subjective to the wiki anyway. On some wikis, such as Wikivoyage, all categories essentially come back to 10 core categories, and this would just make things more confusing. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs) 22:23, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@SHB2000 I understand, and I know that there are such situations, that's why I proposed this as a toggle, so that the user can activate it, but it's not mandatory. --Mannivu · ✉ 08:43, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support CaféBuzz (talk) 09:52, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support With the depth limit being proposed. Some category "tree" may node back to itself. Thingofme (talk) 13:51, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Heterotrofo (talk) 21:00, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support BeyPolite (talk) 12:03, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (talk) 15:21, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ドラみそ (talk) 02:55, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support support cyrfaw (talk) 11:25, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sadads (talk) 01:07, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support —‍(ping on reply)—‍CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 07:19, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wire723 (talk) 10:38, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose --Libertyguy (talk) 21:17, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bass-Kuroi (talk) 04:24, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Carlotm (talk) 08:21, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Blue Edits (talk) 10:18, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support DrowssapSMM (talk) 16:04, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Morten Haan (talk) 18:05, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 01:45, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]