Board Thread:New Features/@comment-1526346-20160904055140/@comment-452-20160905181232

Kirkburn wrote:

For example, some categories can come via templates and thus aren't even in the code of the article you're viewing. It seems to me that the edit page category module works fine for the intended purpose of managing categories specified in the wikitext of the current page and also ignores categories from templates. I don't see any particular reason why the category module couldn't be split into an ajax modal which only shows the category module.

While it wouldn't be much different than loading the edit page and saving, it would give the appearance of a "standalone" category editor, and it would slightly quicker due to not loading the full edit page.

The description of the category module is "Provides an interface for managing categories in article without editing whole article", so it looks like it was originally intended to be used in a standalone fashion.

I could convert the php scripts CategorySelectController and CategoryHelper to javascript and replicate the functionailty myself, but it's a little more work than I'm willing to do for something I wouldn't use, just to prove the point.

It would also be possible to do the lazy way by using ajax to load the edit page and simply copy the category module directly to a modal. While it would prove the point, it's such a kludge that even I won't write it.

Just because a standalone category module wouldn't work for specific cases which Lady Aleena isn't talking about, doesn't mean it wouldn't be a useful feature for the vast majority of cases where people want to quickly manage the categories specified in the wikitext of the current page.

Since you brought it up, why doesn't the edit page category module bother to mention "List of additional categories added by templates"?