Can't you have edit.php place this statement on all category pages ? "This
is the {{PAGENAME}} category."
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On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Geth N7 <infiltrator7n(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks! That's exactly what I needed to
know.
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> 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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