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MediaWiki:Maincategory to be created
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Following up on bug # 14880, I suggest to have a place to store a "root" or "main" or "everything" category, if one exists in a wiki. There are several uses, and many wikis already make use of their local top category at various places.

The message should be optinal, default to empty, and except for some Extensions possibly offering additional goodies when the message is not empty, only Gadgets and individal installations will likely use it.

Yet, e,g, for templates that can be copied between wikis, Extension code, and others, it is useful to have one common place to look for it.

I do not know, which product/component best to choose for this request, so you are encouraged to move it to a more appropriate one.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:18 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.
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• Purodha created this task.Aug 28 2008, 9:03 AM
daniel added a comment.Oct 28 2008, 9:37 AM

I support this idea in general, it would be handly for extensions like CategoryTree to have a place to look for the "root" category of a wiki. There's a Problem with that, though: What is the "root" depends on your perspective -- the navigational root for a visitor is the thing that would be relevant to CategoryTree, but that is often not the real root of the tree. Consider Wikipedia, where, depending on your perspective, the "root category" could be Category:Contents, Category:Articles or Category:Fundamental.

• Purodha added a comment.Feb 26 2009, 12:47 PM

Several possible "root" categories should not pose a real problem:

  1. Wikis can choose to put the into a common technical or super-root category.
  1. "MediaWiki:MainCategory" can be a list istself, with the added benefit of being a bit more flexible in how it is set up, e.g. including little comments explaining what the individual root categories are.
Nemo_bis added a project: OKR-Work.Mar 13 2016, 10:15 AM
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Pcoombe added a parent task: T156244: Empty <categorytree> tag should output top categories.Apr 28 2018, 10:39 PM
Samwilson subscribed.Apr 29 2018, 4:28 AM

Should the maincategory be excluded from Special:UncategorizedCategories?

Nemo_bis added a comment.Apr 29 2018, 8:25 AM
In T17345#4166355, @Samwilson wrote:

Should the maincategory be excluded from Special:UncategorizedCategories?

Probably yes, if it's really the root category, but if it's just a default category then it will be useful to list it there so that it can be found.

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Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM
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Pppery edited projects, added MediaWiki-Categories; removed MediaWiki-General.Thu, Mar 28, 1:08 AM
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