What exactly is the difference between Article and WikiPage? It seems like
one is just an encapsulation of the other.

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Daniel Friesen
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:02:23 -0700, Mauricio Etchevest <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I´m developing a extension and I need to add an article to a category.
>>
>> I only get the title of the article, so I try this:
>>
>> $articleToAdd = new Article($title);
>>
>> $context = $articleToAdd->getContext();
>> $resArticle = MediaWiki::articleFromTitle($**title, $context);
>>
>> $linksupdate = new LinksUpdate($resArticle->**getTitle(),
>> $resArticle->getParserOutput()**, $f);
>> $ps = $linksupdate->getParserOutput(**);
>> $categoriesLinks = $ps->getCategoryLinks();
>>
>>
>> ..so I get all the categories for the article, but I need to add and
>> remove
>> a category.  How can I do that ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Maurice.-
>>
>
> Firstly, don't use Article, use WikiPage.
>
> We don't have an API to add/remove categories. So adding a category is
> nothing but appending category WikiText to the end of the page. And
> removing one is an ugly mess of using regexps to find some WikiText that
> looks like the category link you're looking for and erasing it.
>
> On the other hand we DO have an api for things hooked into the parser to
> add categories that aren't marked up in the page (maintenance categories
> from tag extensions, etc...)
>
> --
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>
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