Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17897872-20150806193544/@comment-30095342-20150808180312

Imamadmad wrote: Re 2) Category Clean-up:

I think the categories should stay, but maybe make them hidden. The only reason is is that the bots use the category system to edit, and it makes editing easier (or at least faster) if we can target bot runs for certain things more easily. For example, imagine that there was a major change to the way that liquorice swirls worked. You might want to add a message to the difficulty section of every page with liquorice swirls asking users to re-evaluate the difficulty of that level with the change in place. That could only really be done with a category for all levels with liquorice swirls on them.

Also, if we were to enable DPL on this wiki (which I recently realised we didn't have yet), we could use the categories as another way of organising levels, such as showing a list of all levels with liquorice swirls on the liquorice swirls page, which is populated based on which pages have that category. You could also organise pages in finer detail, such as making a list of all very hard jelly levels with liquorice swirls on them, if that were ever relevant. That can only be easily be done with these categories.

If you want those sections cleaned up, make the categories hidden, but they definitely have a use, especially if somebody asks staff to enable DPL.

What's DPL?