Thread:Sitb/@comment-43596541-20200117024255/@comment-499247-20200117102453

BluesDriver wrote: As you suggested making an individual Article for each Collection I wanted to know if such a move along with the creation of  appropriate Catgories would allow the  display  of the "A to Z'  index page  similar to what is shown for Upper CIty here: Category:Upper_City What I suggested, was to turn the Collections, Main City and Collections, Upper City articles into lists, or simple tables that contain some additional sorting fields, and for each of those links to lead to individual articles. I'm not sure any additional categories would need to be created. If the table approach was used, you could choose to sort that list alphabetically, by location, or by any other field the community decides to include. 

BluesDriver wrote: Was it what you refer to when you said that Categories are heavily used for Mobile interface users ? ...    If so I think you do have a point (even if I hate losing  a central file (^) )  .. Such a "Category' display  letting users chose in an Alphabetized  list of Collection Articles  could be used by both PC & Mobile users ... and alleviate  some the problems of the "long list' since it offers an Alphabetic index at the top. The mobile version of the site specifically uses categories for links to wiki topics. There are "featured content" links, where you can define articles, but that is really only designed to "feature" a few articles (and usually temporarily). However, the mobile system is really designed around categories as the method for users to navigate to the wiki's various topics. This is why so much of my initial focus on this wiki has been to clearly define its categories and try to fit all of the wiki's content within a nested structure of categories and sub-categories. 

BluesDriver wrote: Am I out to lunch or the initial split from a central long  Article into  a series of individual  Articles for each Collection could be done by a BOT ? .. Bots can be used to create articles. They usually aren't designed to do so using their default tools, but they can be scripted to perform tasks like that. Personally, I've never used a bot for that purpose, so I don't currently know how to do it.- Sitb ( Message wall / Talk page )  10:24, January 17, 2020 (UTC)