"David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote in
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On 02/09/06, Tim Starling
<t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> In case you haven't noticed, Duesentrieb's category tree extension is
live
> on all Wikimedia wikis. The subcategory list on
category pages is
displayed
> as a tree by default. You can click "show as
list" to show it in the old
> display format. This additionally sets a cookie so that further requests
> will show a list by default (except pages cached as a tree on the
client).
That's fantastic! Is 'expand all' a reasonable future feature? Perhaps
with a limit, in case someone cleverly clicks "expand all" on
[[:en:Category:Fundamental]].
Unfortunately, this will have problems with cyclic categories. If you have
CatA > CatB > CatA then you will end up with infinite recursion. This Is A
Bad Thing (tm).
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)