Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wiktionary/Add breadcrumb/breadcrumb trail (graphical control element)

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Add breadcrumb/breadcrumb trail (graphical control element)

Problem: breadcrumb or breadcrumb trail is a graphical control element frequently used as a navigational aid in user interfaces and on web pages. It allows users to keep track and maintain awareness of their locations within programs, documents, or websites. This project (as, by the way, others) does not yet have such a tool.
Who would benefit: breadcrumb navigator
Proposed solution: Commons source code
More comments: I often use this tool to copy the full path to the category in question
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Fractaler (talk) 12:51, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Contents in Wiktionaries are not so often hierarchically organized, so the breadcrumb may be very short if it take only the page in its environment. Do you think it should be for page summary and be actualized dynamically during the scroll down? Noé (talk) 15:46, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- May be during the scroll down, it is seems good idea, thanks! Fractaler (talk) 18:02, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Could you provide an example of how this might look? Also, how would this feature work for circular categorization (where drilling down through subcategories may bring you back to the original category)? (This happens a lot in the English Wikipedia; not sure if it happens in Wiktionaries.) Libcub (talk) 09:06, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Add Example for en:wikt:Category:en:Monkeys. Wiktionary has tool - en:wikt:Template:topic cat (from en:wikt:Module:category tree"), but disadvantage - "Module:category tree" does not allow to get the wiki format of the full path (breadcrumb). For example, I need to manually add a wiki code for categories en:wikt:Category:en:Monkeys -> en:wikt:Category:Monkeys -> en:wikt:Category:en:Monkeys. To search for available circular categorization, there are cycle detection methods. In the script that I made at Commons, I can add code to automatically detect repeated category names when the user selects the next category to add to the full path. And in "Template:topic cat" - I can’t. --Fractaler (talk) 17:13, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]