Is the a way to put into an article a list of all the categories on a wiki?
I know I can link to the Special:Category page and see the list but I want to embed this list into an article.
Thanks,
Jc
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Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
Is the a way to put into an article a list of all the categories on a wiki?
I know I can link to the Special:Category page and see the list but I want to embed this list into an article.
Thanks,
Jc
This is not possible. You can probably get all your categories as members of a supercategory ( eg: Category:Main ), and put text for your article in the Category:Main page.
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Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
Is the a way to put into an article a list of all the categories on a wiki?
I also want this. Would it be possible to write a PHP script to do this? Looking at the categorylinks table:
Field Type Null Default cl_from int(8) No 0 cl_to varchar(255) No cl_sortkey varchar(255) No cl_timestamp timestamp(14) Yes NULL
something like a "SELECT DISTINCT cl_to FROM categorylinks" is this the best place to get this catList? there doesnt seem to be a standalone table of categories, just the list of to/from links.
So then wrap it up in a wiki extension, and later use anywhere as
<catList >showLinks=true; </catList>
the showLinks=true is just a parameter to make the links hot, so to return html like <A href=... ?title=Category:myCategory>myCategory</a>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Write_your_own_MediaWiki_extension
before I start just wanted some advice as to whether this is a much more tricky can of worms than it looks...
Jean-Christian - guess you in tokyo too?
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D_C wrote:
I also want this. Would it be possible to write a PHP script to do this? Looking at the categorylinks table:
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So then wrap it up in a wiki extension, and later use anywhere as
If this is not possible through mediawiki itself then an extension is probably the best way to go. I would like to stay away from directly embedding SQL though as that might not be portable between mediawiki versions.
If there is already built in functionality in mediawiki to get a list of categories (and there must be since that's what the Special page does) then when should try and hook into that from the extension.
But i'm not sure what internal part of mediawiki I should hook into ...
Jean-Christian - guess you in tokyo too?
Yes.
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There is a "view source" or "view HTML code" or smth like that for each article (not sure how's it in english version). Can I remove this option? I'm pretty sure my users will not need to see code ;)
On Friday 28 January 2005 15:00, Nomad wrote:
There is a "view source" or "view HTML code" or smth like that for each
If your copyright uses GFDL or another licence like this, you should let this option to stay there. Users need this option to easily copy and redistribute your content.
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