Which Addon would you like to see first?

**pegasus** · July 12, 2008

After this influx of bug reports, and the swiftness with which they have been dealt with, I feel confident enough with the stability of the product that I can begin releasing the addons one at a time.

However, I don't want to release them all at once in order to facilitate ease in reporting of any bugs that integrating the addons may cause. As in, actually being able to identify the cause of a bug.

So here are the options for right now. Because these are the two simplest mods, I expect them to have few, if any, problems:

Categories
More Special pages

Voting time, people.

**Hilary** · July 14, 2008

How would I use either of these? What would they do? I need an idea what I'm voting for here...

**Kaelon** · July 15, 2008

Categories, if they work like MediaWiki categories, would be amazing.

**NickyPhils** · July 15, 2008

Categories, you know, like in Wikipedia. There's a box at the bottom of every article that says "Categories" and then lists all the categories the page is part of. For example, in Wikipedia, on the "Jafar (Aladdin)" page, it says, "Categories: 1992 introductions | Disney's Aladdin characters | Fictional alchemists" etc. Each of the categories listed is a link to a Category page. On the Category page is a list of all articles in the category.

This is similar to the tagging phenomenon in blogging, and as you may notice, every thread and article also has a tagging feature. However, Categories get a bigger box.

Special pages, you know, like in Wikipedia. All Pages, Recent Changes, New Pages, Orphaned Pages, Dead-end Pages, etc. These are helpful because you don't have to type in the name of an article to get to it. Also, some of the Special Pages give special information, like Statistics. Also, some of these pages can tell you which pages need editing, like Pages with the fewest revisions, or even Wanted pages.

**Hilary** · July 15, 2008

Thanks for the explanations!

**pegasus** · July 25, 2008

Sorry for the delay on this. We will be releasing the first addon as soon as we finish up the 2.0.0 stable release. We are already overdue on this, but you can check the milestone to see that we are close. Also please try to be patient because the more time it takes before a release, the more bugs we are likely to find and fix, so you will have a more stable product when it does become available.