[Mediawiki-l] Custom Namespace Categories

[John Spikowski]

Dr JFBurté,

Thank you for your detail help as a solution to our problem.

I will give this a try and remove all the XX_Category definitions.

When I get this working I post something here so you know how it worked out.


Regards,

John 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org 
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dr JFBurté
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:38 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Custom Namespace Categories
> 
> > If I have a page named "SB:STRING()" and want to assign it 
> to the "SB 
> > Category:String Functions" category, everything is grouped 
> under "S" 
> > due to
> 
> 
> Hello,
> ... perharpsIi don't understand very well what you need, but ..
> I think you should better follow the normal use of the 
> Category spacename This spacename is natural in MW, like 
> Template or Help, and no need to redeclare it. It comes with 
> some naturally specific behaviors. And you can so use some 
> extensions like <categorytree>. Sure it seems more "dirty" 
> because you have in a second time to "chain" those category 
> (a new little bit of work !) pages to construct the good tree
> 
> = put "[[Category:String functions|xx]]" in each yours 
> "SB:String()" pages
> + and forget to use $wgExtraNamespaces[126] = "SB_Category";
> The "|xx" in [[Category:String functions|xx]] should display 
> more ordered list when consulting the Category page, with 
> alphabetics range (A .. B .. C,
> etc)
> 
> @+ de jfb "0.02$", hope that helps
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Spikowski" <support at allbasic.info>
> To: <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:02 AM
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Custom Namespace Categories
> 
> 
> >
> > List,
> >
> > I have setup Mediawiki for the www.AllBasic.Info site and I 
> created custom
> > name spaces for each Basic language. I'm having a problem 
> defining or
> > understanding how to create categories specific to each 
> language name 
> > space.
> >
> > This is what I have defined so far.
> >
> > ## ProvideX
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[100] = "PX";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[101] = "PX_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 100;
> >
> > ## FreeBasic
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[102] = "FB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[103] = "FB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 102;
> >
> > ## Gambas
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[104] = "GB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[105] = "GB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 104;
> >
> > ## Visual Basic
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[106] = "VB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[107] = "VB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 106;
> >
> > ## PureBasic
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[108] = "PB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[109] = "PB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 108;
> >
> > ## REALbasic
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[110] = "RB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[111] = "RB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 110;
> >
> > ## ScriptBasic
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[112] = "SB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[113] = "SB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 112;
> >
> > ## thinBASIC
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[114] = "TB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[115] = "TB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 114;
> >
> > ## HotBasic
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[116] = "HB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[117] = "HB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 116;
> >
> > ## EBasic
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[118] = "EB";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[119] = "EB_talk";
> > $wgContentNamespaces[] = 118;
> >
> > ## Category Namespaces
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[120] = "PX_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[121] = "FB_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[122] = "GB_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[123] = "VB_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[124] = "PB_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[125] = "RB_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[126] = "SB_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[127] = "TB_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[128] = "HB_Category";
> > $wgExtraNamespaces[129] = "EB_Category";
> >
> > If I have a page named "SB:STRING()" and want to assign it 
> to the "SB
> > Category:String Functions" category, everything is grouped 
> under "S" due 
> > to
> > the language name space.
> >
> > I searched till for hours trying to find the solution to 
> this and nothing.
> >
> > If anyone could shed some light on using categories that 
> are unique to 
> > name
> > spaces, I would be very grateful. My wiki project is on 
> hold till this 
> > gets
> > resolved.
> >
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
> > John
> >
> >
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