[Mediawiki-l] Default text for a new category

[Luis Mandel]

Hi again Rob!
I've followed your advice for having "known links" for Categories.
Following your advice I did the this:

>The latter is the easier option and involves a quick patch to
>OutputPage.php. Find the addCategoryLinks function, circa line 220 and
>look for the line
>$this->mCategoryLinks[] = $sk->makeLinkObj( $title, $text );
>Replace this with
>$this->mCategoryLinks[] = $sk->makeKnownLinkObj( $title, $text );

This works for the footer of each page but not for links of the form:

[[Category:myCategory]]


Do you know how to patch MW for having the same behaviour at every category
link?

Thanks in advance,

Luis

On 5/8/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/05/06, Luis Mandel <luismandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > As far as I understood in order to add a page to a category a "tag" of
> the
> > form
> > [[Category:myCategory]] must be added.
> > This will generate a link to that category of the form:
> >
> >              .../index.php/Category:myCategory
> >
> > But if the category doesn't exist the link will be of the form:
> >
> >             .../index.php?title=myCategory&action=edit
> >
> > in order to edit and add some text to "myCategory"
> >
> > I would like to know if it possible to avoid this last behaviour. I
> mean,
> > when a category is required either
> > a default text is generated for that category or directly o link of the
> form
> > .../index.php/Category:myCategory
> > is generated.
>
> The latter is the easier option and involves a quick patch to
> OutputPage.php. Find the addCategoryLinks function, circa line 220 and
> look for the line
>
> $this->mCategoryLinks[] = $sk->makeLinkObj( $title, $text );
>
> Replace this with
>
>
> $this->mCategoryLinks[] = $sk->makeKnownLinkObj( $title, $text );
>
>
>
> Rob Church
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Dr. Luis Mandel
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