DEV: Exclude certain categories from search results and suggestions

[darionewmonday]

The user only wants to see categories which are interesting for the user. Therefore exclude categories which are not interesting for users: maintenance categories geboren [year], gestorben [year] certain undercategories are too specific for users (tbd which ones, depends on what is possible)

Solution/Comments: Technically there are hidden categories which should be excluded automatically. Implement a blacklist which can be maintained manually. Tbd where this blacklist will be (part of the code, part of the repe, onwiki so that it can be edited by TIF?)

[dev-ckln]

We can allow user to select categories and then make suggest query based on that as it shown in new design. Regarding blacklist categories, we need to store the list somewhere.

[darionewmonday]

@ChristineDomgoergen blacklist is needed

[dev-ckln]

@darionewmonday , I will implement the same once I have the blacklist.

[ChristineDomgoergen]

@dev-ckln Hi Deepak, this is the blacklist:

• all maintenance categories (see here https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Kategorienbaum/Wikipedia:Wartung - please expand to see all levels of sub-categories)
• all with “geboren” followed by a year
• all with “gestorben” followed by a year

[dev-ckln]

@ChristineDomgoergen How do I get blacklist categories? How to use this tool? Can you share some kind of a demo for this.

[ChristineDomgoergen]

@dev-ckln Hi Deepak, can't you retrieve them from the link above or via petscan query?

[dev-ckln]

@ChristineDomgoergen Got it , I have started working on it

[dev-ckln]

Mentioned categories are excluded from search and suggestions