Thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Benjamin Lees <[email protected]> wrote: > It's nothing fancy, but Special:WantedCategories (or, better, its API > equivalent) will give you the list, and the edit.php maintenance script, > Pywikibot, or the bot framework of your choice will let you create pages > from the list. > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Geth N7 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What I want to do is mass create category description pages for all of > > these wanted categories. > > > > The text would simply be a link to a "master category" that they would > all > > fall under (for organization purposes). > > > > My problem is that bot programs (like AutoWikibrowser) don't seem to have > > the capability to create category description pages since the pages don't > > exist, and since I have thousands of pages to create, I really wanted to > > add text to these new pages in bulk, but I'm at a loss for how to create > > pages in bulk with preselected text. > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:57 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Depends on what kind of text you want to create the page with. > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Geth N7 <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > From what I understand, a category doesn't exist until the page for > the > > > > category is edited, so even if there are categories listed on a page, > > > > unless those categories have been created, they do not actually exist > > > until > > > > their description pages have been edited. > > > > > > > > I ask this because I'm in charge of wiki that has a lot of blank > > > categories > > > > (it was created from an XML dump made from content from another wiki > > > engine > > > > that did not support categories in the MediaWiki sense), and I would > > like > > > > to mass add some text to all of these "wanted categories" so they can > > be > > > > properly indexed. > > > > > > > > Is there a way to do this, or will I have to edit all these > categories > > > > manually? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
