CC Lupo, who is the primary maintainer of that Gadget for years.

DJ

On 18 jul. 2013, at 01:27, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> 
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