Extension talk:CategoryTree/LQT Archive 1

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An error occured in German Wikipedia. The heading of section appear e.g. as UNIQ385ee6e553c2262-h-0--QINU (cf. QINU fix). This happens if the tag missing category appears on the page (example). --WIKImaniac 19:59, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

A request
Is there any way a switch can be added that will allow the function to be set to default to the collapsed state? I am referring to the function. --Jerem43 06:13, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

A different display
Please take a look at en:Category:Application software. The category outline there was designed as a concise display of the category tree, intended for use by people categorizing articles and not knowledgeable of the existing categories. While that outline is hand-coded (and took advantage of some unique characteristics of that category), the rules for generating it were:
 * 1st level categories start a new line and are visually distinct (bold/higlighted/...)
 * 2nd and lower level categories follow on the same line without any indication of level
 * a category only appears once, whether the prior appearance was as a 1st or other level makes no difference
 * in general (it was hand-coded) the maximum depth was 4.

The resulting "outline" makes locating categories quick, usually at a glance. For many uses, it's not the tree structure that is important, but category existence, and the "outline" makes tree walking, expanding branches, unnecessary. Please consider such a display for future revisions. tooold00:36, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Special:Categories
Is it possible to change the defaults on the Special:Categories page - i.e. instead of seeing a list of categories, seeing them with the + next to the to see sub-categories / pages? How? --Robinson Weijman 08:50, 29 January 2009 (UTC)