Changes to category page (proposal)

In a quest to address several outstanding bugs/feature requests, I have reworked categoryPage.php and made some changes to the way that category pages work under MediaWiki. This page explains the changes and offers some design notes. It is also my hope to get feedback from other developers and users.

Bugs/Feature requests this addresses

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Bug 1211: Subcategory paging is not separate from article paging

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Bug 1476: Category tag on redirect pages does not work

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This enhancement is actually a question of removing code that was apparently added to prevent exactly this functionality. There may be an excellent reason for not allowing this.

Bug 243: Add anchor tags to the headers used on category pages

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Bug 450: Categories need to be structured by namespace

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(which may obsolete bug 706)

Bug 900: Category page listings have unbalanced columns

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Bug 1289: Feature request: Category reverse sort by date

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