Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20160104232418/@comment-995426-20160104235953

Well, the Wikipedia approach would be to maintain "List of..." articles. The issue is balancing categories as a practical reference tool. If a category is too massive, more readers feel put off of browsing it at all. Some people like to binge in the most massive lists, but those are more practical in a single page just for that purpose, hence the "List of..." articles. Parent categories are discouraged from having large numbers of article entries, under the logic that it should only collect "main" pages and associated articles that don't fall under any of the existing subcategories, as well as articles that merely haven't been subcategorized yet. And Wikia's category browsing interface is a lot clunkier than Wikipedia's&mdash;with heavier loading times, greater browser resource usage and far fewer entries per page&mdash;which makes the necessity to delegate subcategories all the greater. After all, in the end, isn't the goal of a wiki not only to gather and sort information, but to make sure it isn't unnecessarily tedious to navigate through dozens of clunky category pages?

Besides, I wonder if there are additional tools (possibly external tools) that allow users to list whole category trees in one view. Maybe there's an obscure MediaWiki "Special" page I haven't examined.