Rosetta Code:Village Pump/tasks page

tasks page
This is a particular discussion thread among many which consider Rosetta Code.

Summary

Tasks page is unwieldy/slow to use

Discussion

Going Next Page/Prev Page is very slow.

On some other websites where there are lots of items by letter, at the top, they have:

[A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z]

Clicking on [M], for instance, takes you to the page containing topics starting with [M]. I don't think it matters much if there is overlap, e.g., the [M] page may also have [L] and [N] topics.

Would it be possible to do something like that here, e.g., I want to see tasks about sorting, but now, I have to click [Next Page] several times to get there, and each page reload is very slow.

I'm not hung up on the [A..Z] thing. If there is another/better way of getting to a particular list of topics, I'm fine with that too.

I'd do the [A..Z] thing myself, but I have no good idea how to do that here.

--Ed Davis (talk)

I imagine that the way you would edit this is by creating the "A..Z thing" in the editable part of Category:Programming_Tasks. I think you would need to use url links rather than wiki links. The urls would be like the urls you get from hitting the next button, but you would truncate the "pageFrom" parameter to a single letter. --Rdm (talk) 22:39, 3 November 2022 (UTC)