[WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus
Manske<magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Is there a summary of what's changed?
>
> Well, it's completely new, so check out the manual link on the page,
> and the original requirements, which have been met or exceeded:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Rewrite_CatScan
>
> (note that, once my beta did all that was required, this contract
> offer was retracted)
>
>
>> One thing: when selecting depth, sometimes you want one category to be
>> 0 depth, but the other category to be a different depth. Is that not
>> possible?
>
> It's explained on the manual page - just append "|2" to the category
> you want to use with a different depth (in this example, 2).

On closer examination, I don't think I can do what I'm trying to do
with that tool.

I want to take a category tree of WikiProject tagged articles
(containing pages tagged in the talk namespace), and compare to a
category tree of articles tagged in the article space (normal,
reader-facing categories). And see where the overlap or lack of
overlap is. That requires some option to ignore namespaces when
comparing page names, OR for the "check for template" bit to have an
option to check the talk page of the articles in the category, rather
than the actual pages in the category. Can this tool do that?

Carcharoth