Jim,

Add Article to Category; you are right here. This is an edit line that gets put on category pages. Then the user navigates to the category they are working in and enters the name of the category they want the page to be assigned to.

CategoryTree; we use this for the user to navigate to the category they are working in. Then use 'Add Article .. '. This works really nice as it can be as expanded as you want. 1 level or 10 levels

SelectCAtegory; we also use this as sometimes creating a page on the fly. Or adding a category to multiple categories.

Since we use BoilerplateSelection our new articles are also assigned automatically depending on the 'boilerplage' being used.

It would be interesting to have something like SelectCategory available as a button to *all* pages. Hmmmm <G>

DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:11 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Easy Category Selection

Dave,

As I read the docs for that extension, it creates a new page in the desired category based on what you enter in the form. But it doesn't let you put an existing page in an existing category, does it?

Personally, I just paste in the wikitext...

The problem I see with some of the options is that the UI gets ugly if the number of categories gets really big. Some kind of browsing vs. selecting from a flat list would be nice. Does your integration with CategoryTree handle that?

I'm thinking that what I'd really like is add to category as a button on the toolbar that pops up an AJAX autocompleting category browser and degrades to you just typing/pasting in the category name.

Jim

On Sep 12, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Dave Sigafoos wrote:

Just to throw something into your mix .. we use and like http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Article_to_Category along with CategoryTree.

This allows the user to go to the category they want (with category tree) and then just type the name of the article in the edit box (with add article to category).

We also use Select category as a fall back (belts and suspenders :).

What problems are you having? What version of MW. We have been using this from 1.9-1.10

DSig

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Connolly, Wayne Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 23:40 To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Easy Category Selection

Hi all,

I would like a easy method that a user can quickly add a article to a category (when in edit mode).

I have found http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mrenoch/ CategoryExtras which looks perfect or http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SelectCategory which looks ok.

i am using latest MW but cannot get it working at all.

Any ideas/helpers?

Regards,

Wayne Connolly Bigpond.com/Telstra.com Production

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