Well, correction: I think edit.php is the route I plan to go to do this, but how would I extract a list of every wanted category so all the pages could be converted as a batch with whatever wikitext I desire?
I followed the instructions on the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Edit.php page, but I'm not sure how (if possible) to apply a "wildcard" to the Category: so that it will batch create category description pages for every category.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Geth N7 infiltrator7n@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks! That's exactly what I needed to know.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.comwrote:
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@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@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@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
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