Can't you have edit.php place this statement on all category pages ? "This
is the {{PAGENAME}} category."*Mlpearc* Founder Everything Food & Drink.org everythingfoodanddrink.org<http://www.everythingfoodanddrink.org/w/index.php/Main_Page> Phone: 760-718-1290 On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Geth N7 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
