Dave,
As I read the docs for that extension, it creates a new page in the
desired category based on what you enter in the form.
But it doesn't let you put an existing page in an existing category,
does it?
Personally, I just paste in the wikitext...
The problem I see with some of the options is that the UI gets ugly
if the number of categories gets really big. Some kind of browsing
vs. selecting from a flat list would be nice. Does your integration
with CategoryTree handle that?
I'm thinking that what I'd really like is add to category as a button
on the toolbar that pops up an AJAX autocompleting category browser
and degrades to you just typing/pasting in the category name.
Jim
On Sep 12, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Dave Sigafoos wrote:
Just to throw something into your mix .. we use and
like
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Add_Article_to_Category along
with CategoryTree.
This allows the user to go to the category they want (with category
tree) and then just type the name of the article in the edit box (with
add article to category).
We also use Select category as a fall back (belts and suspenders :).
What problems are you having? What version of MW. We have been using
this from 1.9-1.10
DSig
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Easy Category Selection
Hi all,
I would like a easy method that a user can quickly add a article to a
category (when in edit mode).
I have found
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mrenoch/
CategoryExtras
which looks perfect
or
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SelectCategory which looks ok.
i am using latest MW but cannot get it working at all.
Any ideas/helpers?
Regards,
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