api.php?action=query&list=querypage&qppage=Wantedcategories&qplimit=5000 will give you the list in a format you can readily convert to just the names.
You can then loop over the list of categories in your programming language of choice and run edit.php once for each category. On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:44 PM, 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
