Well, correction: I think edit.php is the route I plan to go to do this, but how would I extract a list of every wanted category so all the pages could be converted as a batch with whatever wikitext I desire?
I followed the instructions on the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Edit.php page, but I'm not sure how (if possible) to apply a "wildcard" to the Category: so that it will batch create category description pages for every category. On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Geth N7 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
