MediaWiki: how to make DISPLAYTITLE be used in categories listings

Posted by Konstantin Boyandin on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Konstantin Boyandin
Published on 2012-12-11T08:26:19Z Indexed on 2012/12/11 17:24 UTC
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The problem: a MediaWiki-driven site uses subpages to build pages hierarchy. When I add something like

Page1/Page2/Subpage

the exactly above string appears in listings and looks clumsy. I can't efficiently use short subpage title (Subpage in this example), since it can appear in different contexts and could confuse users.

I can use DISPLAYTITLE magic word, with proper values of $wgRestrictDisplayTitle and $wgAllowDisplayTitle, to reassign page title and make it show on the page.

However, when I look into categories listing this page, I will still see "Page1/Page2/Subpage" instead of the title assigned.

Is there a simple way (through 'hack' or via relevant extension) to make the new title appear in every listing as well?

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