[Mediawiki-l] Categories

[Jim Hu]

Hi Sandy,

You don't add them to the Category page, you add them to the page  
that belongs in the category.  In your example, go to the Fish,  
Ebeneezer page and add [[Category:People]]
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054


On Feb 26, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Sandy Rozhon wrote:

> I've asked this question before, but didn't receive any solution.
>
> Why can't I add pages to Categories?  I am using version 1.6.9
>
> As an example, just to make sure I'm adding them correctly, at the
> bottom of the page, I am putting the following:
>
> [[Category:People|Fish, Ebenezer]]
>
> If I go to the Special:Categories, it shows:
>        3. People (6 links)
>
> If I then click on People, it takes me to Category:People but nothing
> shows up other than the simple text I included explaining what the
> category is for.  None of the People category links are shown.  Only
> my overview.  Is the category page normally automatically populated
> with everything linking there, or am I supposed to put some sort of
> template code on it?
>
> The most likely cause of this problem is that something got broken
> when I upgraded from an earlier version because the categories I had
> in there before are still present, but if I hadn't already created
> the category page, I no longer can because I receive the following
> error:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: openshowcategory() in
> /home/trees/wiki/includes/EditPage.php on line 1126
>
> Since I can edit one that existed prior to the upgrade to 1.6.9, it
> seems to me that something in the above named function must create
> the category pages and now that it's "undefined", that procedure is
> not being executed.
>
> Can anyone help me here?  I can't upgrade any further because the
> webserver I'm on isn't using PHP 5.
>
> Sandy
>
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