Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26937472-20160323215130/@comment-34115-20160324111742

'':/ damnit Wikia, I wrote a whole post detailing different categories, etc... and pressing the quote button to answer a different part of the topic erases my entire post and the undo history so I can't recover it.''

*sigh* now I have to write a brand new post.

The first request made in this category was for categories based on our loyalty property (village/other affiliations). There are 226 of those.

We have "characters who use x jutsu" lists as well, these are what powers the jutsu lists in character infoboxes. Those lists would require 2,295 categories.

The number I came up with was a summary of those and a sample of other properties that would probably be turned into categories. Don't remember that list, can barely remember the list I just created now before Wikia's shitty forum erased it, but here's a new shorter summarized list.


 * Characters per gender would another 2 categories
 * 25 Kekkei Genkai, 26 jutsu types, 45 clans
 * Appears in has 6 values, but we can't intersect those with Characters/Jutsu/Tools/Teams so that's actually probably 24 categories. Except people probably also want categories like "Anime-only characters" because categories won't let them filter a list to include those in the anime list but not in the manga list.
 * And more I don't care to bother listing again...

The category system wasn't designed for this. Each property we want requires 1 category for each value of that property and more for any intersections. And even if we auto-fill presence in a category, we still have to create the category page. Even Wikipedia is practically trying to escape categories; WikiMedia is still working on WikiData.

Meanwhile with SMW and Drilldown, at the price of 1 property for each property we want to filter by: anyone can make just about any list they want by intersecting property values.

As for me being the one to notify Wikia, I can do that now. But if it's been like this for several months, then several months ago when it broke, shouldn't someone have pestered Wikia about it? Clearly, expecting me to tell Wikia something is broken when no-one tells me it's broken for several months isn't going to work.