Hi

On Sun 21-Jun-2009 at 11:27:14PM +0100, Dan Bolser wrote:
> 
> 2009/6/21 Yaron Koren <yaro...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > 1) No - you'd need some script to convert bare category tags into
> > field values within template calls (which is the only type of data
> > that Semantic Forms can edit).

Ah, OK, thanks.

> > 2) No - another possibility, though, is to make the Image: (or
> > File:) namespace editable by a form, so people can afterwards add
> > categories to the uploaded file.

Great, I'll have a play with that.

> > 3) No. (I see a trend here. :) ) It might make sense to have a "hide
> > this category from Semantic Forms" indicator for categories; the
> > Semantic Drilldown extension somewhat has need for a similar
> > feature.

OK, that feature would help me out, in the meantime I'll see if I can
bodge it somehow...

> > 4) That seems like a fairly elegant way to do it. Another option is
> > probably to find the name of that language value, then turn it
> > blank, by editing that value's MediaWiki page. (I hope that made
> > sense.)

It didn't make sense, but don't worry about it :-)

> > 5) By "comers", did you mean "corners"? In any case, I can't think
> > of another way to do it.

Sorry I can't spell 'commas'... 

> I guess you mean 'commas'. Indeed, the above code will generate a
> string of commas because the comma is the default delimiter for the
> output of the arraymap function.

Right.

> Just do it like this... "{{#arraymap:{{{Category}}}|,|x|[[Category:x]]
> | }}
> 
> Which specifies a blank output delimiter.

Ah, great that solves it, I had tried adding newlines and that dodn't
work, I don't know why I didn't try a space.

It might be worth documenting how to use an arraymap for multiple
categories on the Semantic Forms page on mediawiki.org -- it took me
quite a few hours to work this out...

> BTW, it is possible to use the MW API to list the categories a page is
> in, therefore it should be possible to build a 'category adder form'
> independently of SF. I haven't played with these features, so I'm not
> sure how easy it would be to integrate. Where is a good example of how
> to use SF to categorize pages?

Ah, that sounds good, I'll do some more investigation...

Thanks again for all the help.

Chris

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