(03-01-2023, 11:10 AM)robkelk Wrote: Still doing lots and lots and lots of cleanup on the wiki...
Somebody give me a convincing reason why I shouldn't simply redirect Category:Index Index to Special:Categories and let MediaWiki automation do at least that much of the cleanup work. I see no reason to manually replicate an automated list.
Technical explanation in the simplest way possible:
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Categories
This is just a list of all categories for EVERYTHING. This includes maintenance, categories included with imported content that is not trope/work-related, hidden utility ones, and lots of other trivia that is not entirely needed for us to look at all the time.
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Category:Index_Index
This, on the other hand, are the actual content categories, all the things that court as things the average reader will care about or have good reason to peruse. This is just groups all that "relevant to the average site reader and editor" content" together, while the former makes no distinctions between this and background stuff not of strict importance to the former.