I'm looking at the code and, as a plugin developer who will want to add his plugins to the list as they come along, am turned off by the amount of maintenance that is going to be necessary. Trying to pigeon-hole a plugin into a category isn't bad, and most are fairly cut-and-dried, but then having to add it in two places and make sure I have the anchors properly created, plus making sure I don't mess up the wikitables. It's a nightmare for someone who's not experienced in editing a wiki. Much of this could be simplified through the use of templates, kinda similar to what I still need to fix over on racecar (it did work at one time, until I tried extending it further and got frustrated). Even wikipedia doesn't trust casual editors to get wikitables correct. They have lots of templates for creating the types of tables you have.
[[User:Draugath|Draugath]] 01:26, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
First of all, thank you for the feedback. As I have already said in IRC, I've now set up my LAMP server again with a mediawiki install so I can test things locally without spamming the VO wiki.
So far I've created some templates to limit the complications of wikitables and automatically create the anchors - the editor would still have to make two edits for a plugin, even if the first one is only its name. That's the limits of wikicode for you (we have talked about this draugath). Now when I manage to squeeze it in between plugin coding and writing essays about bloody 15th century courtlife in the Electoral Palatinate, I will try another approach that draug suggested: A category page with transcluded sub-pages for each plugin. It might work.
[[User:Andy Spades|Andy Spades]] 15:44, 24 October 2011 (UTC)