[Mediawiki-l] Show all categories in main page

[Rick DeNatale]

On 8/17/05, Jamie Bliss <astronouth7303 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/16/05, Javier Lázaro <javieras at unex.es> wrote:
> > Hello everybody.
> >
> > Is there a way to show a "map" of all categories in the main page? I
> > would like to have a quickly view about what i can find in my wiki. My
> > wiki is categorized well but we must navigate following the links one by
> > one from main page till get the article.
> 
> If you want to just have a list of categories, under v1.5 you can do
> {{Special:Categories}}. Otherwise, you may want to look at the
> extensions module in CVS for some ideas.

I used pywikipediabot to create a python bot program which creates a
hierarchy of categories on my website:

http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/wiki/RixWiki:Category_hierarchy

I did this sometime ago, and I haven't been keeping up with changes to
pywikipediabot since then, and I suspect that I didn't make it very
portable to other sites.