On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Magnus Manskemagnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus Manskemagnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharothcarcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
Is there a summary of what's changed?
Well, it's completely new, so check out the manual link on the page, and the original requirements, which have been met or exceeded: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Rewrite_CatScan
(note that, once my beta did all that was required, this contract offer was retracted)
One thing: when selecting depth, sometimes you want one category to be 0 depth, but the other category to be a different depth. Is that not possible?
It's explained on the manual page - just append "|2" to the category you want to use with a different depth (in this example, 2).
On closer examination, I don't think I can do what I'm trying to do with that tool.
I want to take a category tree of WikiProject tagged articles (containing pages tagged in the talk namespace), and compare to a category tree of articles tagged in the article space (normal, reader-facing categories). And see where the overlap or lack of overlap is. That requires some option to ignore namespaces when comparing page names, OR for the "check for template" bit to have an option to check the talk page of the articles in the category, rather than the actual pages in the category. Can this tool do that?
It can now :-)
One can now use template filters on talk pages instead of "actual" pages. Not the most generic option, but should cover many cases.
Also, I found that your example query yield a rather astonishing amount of categorized redirects (750 out of 813). Therefore, I also implemented filtering the results by redirect (no redirects/only redirects/either).
Wonderful! Thanks so much for doing that! :-)
The redirects? I think most of them were left behind after merging. We wanted to keep track of them, so we used redirect templates to categorise them by type. At this point, I would pull out the guideline to categorising redirects, and give a tour of WikiProject-categorised redirects, but it's late here, so I'll go and look at the list you've provided, which has several untagged articles (some of which will be merged soon, in case anyone here goes all faint at the stubbiness and cruftiness of them). At least one of them is a redirect turned back into stub...
Carcharoth