Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

2009-06-06 Thread Trevor Parscal
Depending on the approach, this may fall under some of the areas the Wikipedia Usability Initiative (of which I am a developer) is planning to cover. I invite you to communicate your ideas and progress with us - we are always excited about talking to, and learning about the work of, people

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

2009-06-06 Thread Adam Meyer
This site will be very locked down visually, only the one skin will be available. Im hoping to make it work like this. (Video mockup) http://vimeo.com/5038335 (view large for better quality) On Jun 6, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Ekompute .info wrote: > It's going to be a headache when there are too ma

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

2009-06-06 Thread Ekompute .info
It's going to be a headache when there are too many variables to take care of. For the skins that don't work, I suggest you simply disable them since their formats are so different. After all, you don't have to provide them simply because they exist. PM Poon On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Haim (

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

2009-06-06 Thread Haim (Howard) Roman
I just make a section (the last section) for my different references, and its last subsection is for categories. In Monobook skin, this looks good, because the category links appear under the category sub-section title. But in at least one skin (simple or classic), it doesn't work because the cat

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

2009-06-06 Thread Platonides
Adam Meyer wrote: > Im looking to see if there is a way to edit the categories like you > would a section of a page. So that all the user is seeing / editing is > the categories. > > Im looking at writing an extension to visually edit them. > > Thanks, > -Adam You can take a look at HotCat:

[Mediawiki-l] Editing categories alone (like section)

2009-06-06 Thread Adam Meyer
Im looking to see if there is a way to edit the categories like you would a section of a page. So that all the user is seeing / editing is the categories. Im looking at writing an extension to visually edit them. Thanks, -Adam ___ MediaWiki-l maili