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 infiltrato...@gmail.com
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
That sounds like it should work. Thanks!
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
api.php?action=querylist=querypageqppage=Wantedcategoriesqplimit=5000
will give you the list in a format you can readily convert to just the
names.
You can then loop over the
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
Depends on what kind of text you want to create the page with.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Geth N7 infiltrato...@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
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Geth N7 infiltrato...@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
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
