It's nothing fancy, but Special:WantedCategories (or, better, its API
equivalent) will give you the list, and the edit.php maintenance script,
Pywikibot, or the bot framework of your choice will let you create pages
from the list.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Geth N7 <infiltrator7n(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What I want to do is mass create category description
pages for all of
these wanted categories.
The text would simply be a link to a "master category" that they would all
fall under (for organization purposes).
My problem is that bot programs (like AutoWikibrowser) don't seem to have
the capability to create category description pages since the pages don't
exist, and since I have thousands of pages to create, I really wanted to
add text to these new pages in bulk, but I'm at a loss for how to create
pages in bulk with preselected text.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:57 PM, John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Depends on what kind of text you want to create
the page with.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Geth N7 <infiltrator7n(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
From what I understand, a category doesn't
exist until the page for the
category is edited, so even if there are categories listed on a page,
unless those categories have been created, they do not actually exist
until
their description pages have been edited.
I ask this because I'm in charge of wiki that has a lot of blank
categories
(it was created from an XML dump made from
content from another wiki
engine
> that did not support categories in the MediaWiki sense), and I would
like
> to mass add some text to all of these
"wanted categories" so they can
be
properly
indexed.
Is there a way to do this, or will I have to edit all these categories
manually?
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