User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Social Activity, the 2010 Editor, and Unpausing Migrations/@comment-24937036-20201014135240/@comment-26939652-20201014163943


 * It is, apparently, removed because it doesn't go well with Google searching and is actually bad for those who want to discover wikis

First, that's been said without source references, so questionable, could even be vastly outdated.

Second, by the nature of the beast, category pages are not that good at driving traffic as their name is general. See above example: Protagonist is the category name, which is quite a common word in the entertainment industry and to rank anywhere high with the likes of IMDb, streaming services and what not as your competitors would be quite the feature.

Third as Abejita916 correctly states, this could be improved upon. Perhaps by improving the view, but the simplest solution is to set a canonical URL that uses a different category view. This would instruct Google to use the different category view and humans would enjoy the visual one.

And finally, this once again removes a feature without prior notice, leaving wiki's in the dust - instead of providing it as an option that can be disabled/enabled with proper information about "why this is bad for you".