Don't understand what this means.

brian wrote:

We used to be experimenting with and discussing this
mainly at en:Category( talk):Geography, although we could
have used any category and it would work just as well.

The standard parts that appear on every category page are
the subcategories and pages in that category. For a while
on en:, the main page categories showed the portals as
well.

The user should be able to choose whether the portals,
the standard parts or both are displayed when they view
category pages.

That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
You've got some content, so just scroll down to see the lists. Done.

Resolving WONTFIX.