[Mediawiki-l] how to create tree-like index from categories

[Mike Valstar]

to the best of my knowledge there is no way to do this built into 
mediawiki, you will need to build an extention or a bot to update your 
main page

if you do build an extention, the page will not update automagically 
when a new category is added you will need to run an   action=purge on 
it because the "compiled" version of the page is stored in the DB (just 
in case you run into that problem when building your extention)

Mike Valstar

Jason Grant wrote:

>MediaWiki: 1.4.7
>
>I'm a new user of MediaWiki, and am wanting to render a tree-like table
>of contents, where the branches are local categories and sub-categories,
>and the leaves are hyperlinks to the pages in each category.  Can I
>already do this with 'out of the box' MediaWiki capabilities, or must I
>write an (?) extension?  
>
>Here's an example of what I want:
>
>MyTopLevelCategory
>  TopLevelChildCategory
>     PageThatIsInChildCatetory (hyperlinked)
>AnotherTopLevelCategory
>  AnotherChildCategory
>     AnotherPageThatIsInChildCatetory (hyperlinked)
>
>This way, my main page will remain up to date without edits, and will
>help me to ensure that all my pages are categorized properly.
>
>I don't care about possible cycles in the graph - I'll just duplicate
>the leaves.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Jason.
>
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