Board Thread:Watercooler/@comment-24473195-20160909094117/@comment-24473195-20160909100742

"The problem with 'simplifying' to fewer names is that any category with more than 10 or so items becomes useless.http://dev.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:List_of_JavaScript_enhancements?diff=44719&amp;oldid=44716"

I think that is faulty logic, to give an extreme but possible example, if we have 10000 scripts stored in this wiki it is unlikely that categorization will still help ?

Going back to the topic of types, many scripts on this page as categorized because people don't know where to put them.

Now a couple of suggestions:


 * Don't try to make the List of JavaScript tools something it can't be. Wiki design makes it incredibly hard to have a proper index of pages without all of them being in the same namespace.


 * A new namespace for these tools is the cleanest solution for someone who wants to see all of them, with proper builtin tools such as Special:AllPages/Code and Special:Prefixindex.

If 3 types don't suffice, one alternative is to have them as top categories add the existing ones (that make sense) as subcategories, e.g.:


 * Editing
 * General
 * Page management
 * Curation and moderation
 * User management
 * Maintenance
 * Collaboration
 * Discussion
 * Reading
 * External integration
 * Styling Customization
 * Miscellaneous
 * Chat
 * Developer tools
 * Historical, experimental, or defunct tools