On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Charlotte Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: >> c) [[Category:Living people]] - dead people have the cat removed > > As far as I know there is no easy way to track category removal. > Special:Relatedchanges/Category:Living_people will not show edits > which remove the category, and any edits previously visible on this > list (prior to category removal) will disappear from it. > > Matters of propriety may have discouraged this in the past but now > that we have the __HIDDENCAT__ feature, we might consider adding dead > people directly to [[Category:Dead people]].
No way to track category removal, but there is already vaguely the function you are looking for in the API. http://toolserver.org/~samkorn/scripts/recentdeaths.php tracks the latest 50 additions to [[Category:2009 deaths]]. A bot could quite easily go through, say, 50 years worth of categories and collate a list of people added to the category in the last day and post it on-wiki. If it would be helpful, I'll do that tomorrow. Sam -- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
