Hi!
I’m the creator and coordinator of the Wikimini Web site, which is an encyclopedia written by children 8-13 years (at the moment it's only available in French, but I plan to make it available in other languages in the future… with some help). According to the age of participants, we are using the SelectCategory extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SelectCategory) to let them more easily classify the articles. In its last version, SelectCategory shows a checkbox list of existing categories and the user can then just select the one(s) he wants to be assigned to the article. Since the launch of the project in October 2008 we have been testing this system with only ten main categories. It works pretty well and children use it without any difficulties.
But now I’m planning to add about one hundred categories and subcategories. Therefore I would like the SelectCategory checkbox listing to looks like CategoryTree (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CategoryTree). Some users asked for such an option in the extension talk page (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:SelectCategory ) but haven’t received any answer yet.
That’s what I’m looking for and I hope some of you might help me. I am completely ok to pay for such a service. (Last thing : A great plus would be to add a feature that automatically uncheck parent category when one of its child is checked. This should be possible with some JavaScript).
Thank you very much and sorry for my bad English.
Laurent http://fr.wikimini.org
Quick links :
- SelectCategory Extension : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SelectCategory (screenshot shown on this page is an old version) - CategoryTree Extension : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CategoryTree