Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-5280383-20140808153216/@comment-25263848-20140826081013

ArtisticMink wrote: After contacting wikia support, they suggested the use of http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryIntersection, which should be able to cover most of our issues.

Thanks for the suggestion Mor, but sadly it does not fix the problem of having very expansive and unpredictable content. It would still be hard for people to find the content they want. This extension doesn't change the category structure, all it does is offer the same ability as "DynamicPageList" as well as a search option.

IMHO like with the majority of special pages, this extension wont help "people" to find the content they want, only a handful of admins who know their category structure inside out.

like DynamicPageList it might be useful to dynamically list "appearances" on pages, although its benefit for such small/static wiki is arguable.

As for my suggestion, it wasn't intended to fix his problem, or allow to deal with extreme cases. On the contrary, i suggest that they focus on the most common\useful queries for the vast majority of people, and add those categories within the well integrated\familiar category\navigation system (which in many cases can be auto handled by templates like infoboxes, so it doesn't mean extra work for editors). Also it wasn't an OR proposition, you can do both.