[Mediawiki-l] Easy Category Selection

Thu Sep 13 17:11:13 UTC 2007

We've been looking at being able to do much the same thing:  simple
categorization, preferably from a listbox/drop-down.  Right now I'm leaning
towards the SimpleForms categorization method
(http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/SimpleForms_categorisation_example), though
as Jim points out it might get a little ugly if there are a LOT of
categories.  We might actually use a category to categorize the categories
(yes, that's what I said)...in other words, create
Category:CategoriesToShowUpInTheListbox and then apply that to the
categories that we want to appear (and therefore minimize the list).
Christopher M. Reigrut
Applications Systems Architect
Key Technology Services / KeyBank
1000 South McCaslin Boulevard
Superior, Colorado 80027
720-304-1049

> Jim,
>
> Add Article to Category; you are right here.  This is an edit line that
> gets put on category pages.  Then the user navigates to the category
> they are working in and enters the name of the category they want the
> page to be assigned to.
>
> CategoryTree; we use this for the user to navigate to the category they
> are working in.  Then use 'Add Article .. '.  This works really nice as
> it can be as expanded as you want.  1 level or 10 levels
>
> SelectCAtegory; we also use this as sometimes creating a page on the
> fly.  Or adding a category to multiple categories.
>
> Since we use BoilerplateSelection our new articles are also assigned
> automatically depending on the 'boilerplage' being used.
>
> It would be interesting to have something like SelectCategory available
> as a button to *all* pages.  Hmmmm <G>
>
> DSig
> David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
> PICK Guy
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Hu
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:11
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Easy Category Selection
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> > [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
> > Connolly,
> > Wayne
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 23:40
> > To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > 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,
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > Wayne Connolly
> > Bigpond.com/Telstra.com Production
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> ----- Message from "Daniel Barrett" <danb at VistaPrint.com> on Thu, 13
> Sep 2007 09:45:05 -0400 -----
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> Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to delete a page in my wiki that cannot befound?
>
> I've seen this on a Windows server when the article title contains a "\"
> character.
> I don't remember how we deleted our errant page.
>
> DanB
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> ----- Message from Michael Daly <michaeldaly at kayakwiki.org> on Thu,
> 13 Sep 2007 11:55:26 -0400 -----
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> Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to delete a page in my wiki that cannot befound?
>
> Daniel Barrett wrote:
> > I've seen this on a Windows server when the article title contains a
"\"
> > character.
> > I don't remember how we deleted our errant page.
>
>
> I've had a similar problem for quite a while.  A page called "foobar."
> and one called "foobar" are treated identically if you try to delete but
> differently if you create them.  The result is the that "foobar." stays
> around and is not deletable.
>
> Mike
>
>
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>
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> ----- Message from "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> on Thu,
> 13 Sep 2007 17:16:49 +0100 -----
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> Subject:
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> Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to delete a page in my wiki that cannot befound?
>
> > I've had a similar problem for quite a while.  A page called "foobar."
> > and one called "foobar" are treated identically if you try to delete
but
> > differently if you create them.  The result is the that "foobar." stays
> > around and is not deletable.
>
> Works for me on a version downloaded from SVN not too long ago.
>
>
>
> ----- Message from Mike Lane <mikelane5 at msn.com> on Thu, 13 Sep 2007
> 16:17:41 +0000 -----
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> Subject:
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> Re: [Mediawiki-l] How to delete a page in my wiki that cannot befound?
>
>
> My article is called:
>
> How to map share for web pages - \\server\share_name
>
> When i click on the article link (in special pages - all pages) I
> get the following error:
>
> The page cannot be found
>
> The page you are looking for might have been moved, had it's name
> changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
> > Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:45:05 -0400> From: danb at VistaPrint.com>
> To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] How
> to delete a page in my wiki that cannot befound?> > I've seen this
> on a Windows server when the article title contains a "\">
> character.> I don't remember how we deleted our errant page.> >
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