[Wikia-l] Category tree

[John Beckett]

Tim Bartel wrote:
> Daniel told me:
> "The new version of CT for MediaWiki 1.13 will show [x] 
> instead of [+] for empty categories. It can also show the 
> number of subcategories, pages and images on each category 
> entry. This is based on additional information in the 
> database that has become available since 1.13.
> 
> I found that this doesn't *always* work, specifically, if you 
> look on category pages on wikipedia, this does not seem to 
> apply. I have to investigate why, since when testing locally, 
> it works fine for me.
> Once 1.13 is out, please test and let me know."
> 
> So if you are a bit patient - it should be done in a few days 
> or weeks.

Excellent. Thanks, and yes I'm patient!

Re Wikipedia: Conceivably they could disable a feature such as this due to their
enormous and fast-changing categories (I imagine the feature would have a
performance hit).

John