Florian set up something similar to this that you may be interested in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack%20Obama?mobileaction=alpha#/categories/add
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Jack Phoenix <j...@countervandalism.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to build an autocompletion thingy that suggests categories based > on user input using the opensearch API [1]. It sounds like a relatively > simple thing and I was able to hack something that somewhat works in a few > minutes...there's just one gotcha: this thing is supposed to suggest > nothing but categories, so I don't need nor want the "Category:" label (or > its localized equivalent) to show up. > I've been able to manipulate the result set so that whenever the user > clicks on a suggestion, whatever gets inserted into the <input> is > correct...but what is *displayed* to the user still includes the > "Category:" part in it. The various ways how I've been able to remove the > "Category:" part from the value have been more or less hacky and > inefficient. > > What am I doing wrong here [2]? How can I totally strip out the "Category:" > part and pretend it doesn't exist and never did? > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Opensearch > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jack_Phoenix/AutocompleteTest > > Thanks and regards, > -- > Jack Phoenix > MediaWiki developer > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
