Help talk:Navigation
With the changes to this article from a static and hard to maintain TOC to a dynamic tree of the main finiki categories, I'm thinking that this should be moved into the finiki:Help namespace and renamed, perhaps 'Help:Main categories' or something similar. Does this make sense? --Peculiar Investor 10:24, 16 November 2012 (MST)
- Putting it on the main page may help. Suggest either next to Getting Started or at the bottom next to Complete Category Index. --Shakespeare 10:35, 16 November 2012 (MST)
- I like it, taking it one step further, how about using it as a replacement for Complete Category Index? Any views on renaming and moving into Help namespace? --Peculiar Investor 10:44, 16 November 2012 (MST)
Index of Articles? No views on Help namespace; I think its more useful on the main page.--Shakespeare 10:50, 16 November 2012 (MST)
Should "Asset classes" be expandable? --Shakespeare 17:51, 16 November 2012 (MST)
- It wasn't because it the Category:Asset classes wasn't a child of Category:Investment management. I've fixed that. --Peculiar Investor 18:17, 16 November 2012 (MST)
Some follow-up. I've cloned in some intro from Help:Navigation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and renamed article into the Help namespace. Still working on how best to link into main page and/or the navigation sidebar. --Peculiar Investor 10:49, 17 November 2012 (MST)
- Would it be better to have the category tree default to expanded view? Articles may be more difficult to find, especially for new investors. --LadyGeek 11:59, 17 November 2012 (MST)
- From my read of Extension:CategoryTree - MediaWiki I don't see that as an option. From what I'm seeing, both as a logged in user and also as an anonymous reader is the full list of articles belonging to the main categories are displayed by default, the only thing 'closed' is the articles in the sub-categories. Are you seeing something different?--Peculiar Investor 14:47, 17 November 2012 (MST)
In the example below, I set depth=5, so I expected to see the sub-category content. However; Cash Management, Personal finance, and Short Term Cash Returns categories are closed. There's no option to expand "all." If you can't see "all" without knowing the exact depth, perhaps it's best to leave well enough alone.
--LadyGeek 20:10, 18 November 2012 (MST)