Had a quick chat with jared Zimmerman (cced) around this (who's not on this mailing list)
He says: "HotCat is number one on my list of gadgets to get some UX love and turn into a beta experiment... If everything goes well while its in experiments then it gets integrated into core extensions. Mark H. is coding the desktop beta experiments framework right now (literally while I write this email)" On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Yuvi Panda <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> wrote: >> Quick question, is there a way in the API (other than action=edit) to >> add/remove categories from a page? Because that seems to be one of the main >> things that would be holding this back from becoming an extension proper. > > There isn't currently (we hit this in the mobile commons app). > Currently we have to get the wikitext, parse out the categories (eek > wikitext), and then add/replace/edit them. Regexes all over. Not fun. > > But fixing that would take a lot more work, I think. > > > -- > Yuvi Panda T > http://yuvi.in/blog > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
