Hi, I would like to flag a large number of wiki pages based on whether their HTML passes a certain test, so that failing pages can be easily listed and counted. The flags should adapt when pages are created or modified. (The specific use case is collecting file pages which do not have machine-readable author and license information embedded.)
I have been thinking of adding such pages to a maintenance category from a parser hook (the test logic is already part of the imageinfo/extmetadata API and would be easy to reuse), is that a good way to do this? If so, what's the best way to achieve it? Is it OK to just add categories as needed via $parser->getOutput()->addCategory() or can that mess up internal state such as the categorylinks table? Alternatively, the Cite extension just parses and appends a message to the end of the text on ParserBeforeTidy when it encounters an error, and the message contains wikitext to include a category. That seems like a clever way of maintaining flexibility so it is easy to change the category name or add extra text for a call to action without any need for a code change. Is that approach safe/cheap? thanks Gergő _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
