Thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
It's nothing fancy, but
Special:WantedCategories (or, better, its API
equivalent) will give you the list, and the edit.php maintenance script,
Pywikibot, or the bot framework of your choice will let you create pages
from the list.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Geth N7 <infiltrator7n(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What I want to do is mass create category
description pages for all of
these wanted categories.
The text would simply be a link to a "master category" that they would
all
fall under (for organization purposes).
My problem is that bot programs (like AutoWikibrowser) don't seem to
have
the capability to create category description
pages since the pages
don't
exist, and since I have thousands of pages to
create, I really wanted to
add text to these new pages in bulk, but I'm at a loss for how to create
pages in bulk with preselected text.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:57 PM, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Depends on what kind of text you want to create
the page with.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Geth N7 <infiltrator7n(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > From what I understand, a category doesn't exist until the page for
the
> > category is edited, so even if there
are categories listed on a
page,
> > unless those categories have been
created, they do not actually
exist
until
> their description pages have been edited.
>
> I ask this because I'm in charge of wiki that has a lot of blank
categories
> (it was created from an XML dump made from content from another wiki
engine
> that did not support categories in the MediaWiki sense), and I would
like
> > to mass add some text to all of these "wanted categories" so they
can
be
> > properly indexed.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this, or will I have to edit all these
categories
>
manually?
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