Sokomine wrote:I've tried to sort mods into categories on the Wiki, but doing so manually was so much work (tedious cut&paste) that I gave up.
This strikes me as a problem. Wikis are useful things, and Minetest has two good ones. Why not use them to full effect? Categorizing things on a wiki is supposed to be as simple as adding "[[Category:SomeCategory]]". When it's not, it is because someone's trying to misuse the wiki by manually formatting things using explicit, manual metadata (e.g. a block of summary info) or trying to aggregate data elsewhere (e.g. a table in another article). Both things are valid to do, but should be backed by convenient and maintainable wiki mechanisms, such as templates and (if absolutely necessary) plugins.
I agree that adding mods to the current wiki
List of Mods is a little tedious and also not visible enough to the community, but for exactly the above reasons. If we made better use of categories and templates, it should make things a lot more tolerable and useful. For example, the table shouldn't have to be maintained explicitly
at all, and the "Mod Data" template shouldn't take manual inputs that are handled by other wiki mechanisms, like categories ("type").