Editing categories alone (like section) - MediaWiki-l

Platonides

7 Jun 7 Jun

12:28 a.m.

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Adam Meyer wrote:

Im looking to see if there is a way to edit the categories like you would a section of a page. So that all the user is seeing / editing is the categories. Im looking at writing an extension to visually edit them. Thanks, -Adam

You can take a look at HotCat: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js

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Ekompute .info

2:08 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

It's going to be a headache when there are too many variables to take care of. For the skins that don't work, I suggest you simply disable them since their formats are so different. After all, you don't have to provide them simply because they exist. PM Poon On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Haim (Howard) Roman<roman(a)jct.ac.il> wrote:

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I just make a section (the last section) for my different references, and its last subsection is for categories. In Monobook skin, this looks good, because the category links appear under the category sub-section title. But in at least one skin (simple or classic), it doesn't work because the categories are put on top of the page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev) On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 03:20, Adam Meyer <meyer7(a)mindspring.com> wrote:

Im looking to see if there is a way to edit the categories like you would a section of a page. So that all the user is seeing / editing is the categories. Im looking at writing an extension to visually edit them. Thanks, -Adam _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Trevor Parscal

4:56 a.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

Depending on the approach, this may fall under some of the areas the Wikipedia Usability Initiative (of which I am a developer) is planning to cover. I invite you to communicate your ideas and progress with us - we are always excited about talking to, and learning about the work of, people working to improve the usability of mediawiki - especially in relation to editing. - Trevor Sent from my iPod On Jun 6, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Adam Meyer <meyer7(a)mindspring.com> wrote:

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This site will be very locked down visually, only the one skin will be available. Im hoping to make it work like this. (Video mockup) http://vimeo.com/5038335 (view large for better quality) On Jun 6, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Ekompute .info wrote:

It's going to be a headache when there are too many variables to take care of. For the skins that don't work, I suggest you simply disable them since their formats are so different. After all, you don't have to provide them simply because they exist. PM Poon On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Haim (Howard) Roman<roman(a)jct.ac.il> wrote:

I just make a section (the last section) for my different references, and its last subsection is for categories. In Monobook skin, this looks good, because the category links appear under the category sub-section title. But in at least one skin (simple or classic), it doesn't work because the categories are put on top of the page. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev) On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 03:20, Adam Meyer <meyer7(a)mindspring.com> wrote:

Im looking to see if there is a way to edit the categories like you would a section of a page. So that all the user is seeing / editing is the categories. Im looking at writing an extension to visually edit them. Thanks, -Adam _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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