MediaWiki talk:Catseparator

Proposed change
On the off chance someone's watching this talk page, there has been a proposal to adopt a non-default category separator. Briefly, it has been suggested that the current, default pipe "|" be replaced with a middot "•" to improve the appearance of category lists and prevent potential confusion of the pipe with the letters "l" and "1" and the number "1". I gather that this separator is now the default in many lists of links in article navigational templates.

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Categories at the bottom - Dots instead of "|"s for details, and engage in discussion there.

There currently appears to be support for this change, and I have volunteered to carry it out in approximately three days' time unless objections are raised. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 04:46, 3 October 2008 (UTC)


 * This is quite a glaring and unwelcome change (for me), and this page is hard to find (at first, I assumed the separator was hardwired into MediaWiki, and that this was a change introduced in the latest alpha of 1.14). I guess I can work around it with a userscript, but it would be better if more people contributed to the discussion (and knew where it was taking place).


 * chocolateboy (talk) 12:45, 6 October 2008 (UTC)