Forum:Autopopulating pages of a category?

Hi guys, I'm wondering if there is any way to autopopulate pages of a category. I found the following instruction on the Help Wiki: However, when I use this method on my wiki at: http://hunterx.wikia.com, the navigation bar only shows the pages in order of their creation, and not in order of their popularity. Here is what I wrote: #category-Characters#, #category-Locations#, and so on. Is there anything wrong with my syntax? Or is it just that this method no longer works?
 * One way to make sure the navigation always shows the most popular content is to use a trick to autopopulate the fields with popular pages or the most linked category pages. This will autopopulate the 7 menu items with the most popular pages.
 * To do this, use # symbols around category name.
 * For categories, you use #category-name#. So for example, #category-food# will result in the 7 dropdown links being automatically filled with the most popular articles in the category "food".

Thank you for reading.

Foreva 12:40, April 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * I've read Help:Wiki_navigation too and I can't tell what definition of "popular" it uses: most views? most editors?? most revisions??? most linked???


 * Which would you be interested in? --
 * I think by 'popular' the writers of that help page meant 'most viewed' articles, which are also what I want to incorporate into the Nav bar of my wiki the most. But to be honest, whether it be 'most viewed' or 'most edited', as long as I can find a way to make the Nav bar of my wiki automatically change its contents periodically, I'll be satisfied with it. Foreva 21:29, April 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Take a look at Help:QuickStats:


 * "Please note: we're aware that at this time the 'Views' column of Quick Stats isn't functioning correctly. The system we calculate views from is undergoing some unexpected maintenance. We don't yet have a firm timeline when this system will be fixed. When the issue has been resolved we'll remove the message from Quick Stats and update here. Thanks for your understanding!"


 * It looks like Wikia currently cannot determine how many views pages get. These are the pages from your "Nen users" category:


 * |Kurapika|Knov|Morel%20McCarnathy|Ging%20Freecss|Pariston%20Hill|Lippo http://hunterx.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&prop=info&inprop=views&titles=Jeitsari|Kurapika|Knov|Morel%20McCarnathy|Ging%20Freecss|Pariston%20Hill|Lippo


 * "views" is 0 for each and every one of them. --
 * Thank you, so this means I'll have to wait until they fix the view-counting system. Foreva 04:46, April 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, it seems so. The good news is: Staff is already aware of the problem. --

For the record, most popular actually means most populated. IE, biggest categories. Rappy 19:38, April 16, 2012 (UTC)