Extension:CategoryOnUpload

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CategoryOnUpload

Release status: stable

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Implementation  User interface
Description Adds a selection box to the upload page for choosing a category.
Author(s)  Robert Leverington (RobertLTalk)
Last Version  1.1.0 (2009-07-18)
MediaWiki  1.11.1+
License GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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The CategoryOnUpload extension adds a selection box to the upload page allowing users to choose a category.

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[edit] Installation

  • Upload the files to the extensions/CategoryOnUpload/ directory within your wiki.
  • Add require_once( "$IP/extensions/CategoryOnUpload/CategoryOnUpload.php" ); to the end of your LocalSettings.php file.
  • Enjoy!

[edit] Usage

Select a category from the selection box when uploading a file, the category list will automatically be populated.

Some larger wikis may have a lot of categories, in this case an array can be define to limit to specific image categories.

$wgCategoryOnUploadList = array( 'Images', 'Featured Images' );

[edit] Configuration

There are three configuration settings you can set:

$wgCategoryOnUploadDefault
Specifies the category which will be set by default.
$wgCategoryOnUploadAllowNone
Allow the user to choose not to use a category, either true or false.
$wgCategoryOnUploadList
Allow a select list of categories to be defined, rather than all (e.g. image categories )

There are also two messages you can may wish to alter:

MediaWiki:categoryonupload-label
The label for the category selection box, displayed on the upload form.
MediaWiki:categoryonupload-none
The option text for specifying no category, defaults to a single hyphen.

[edit] Releases

Version Release date Comments
1.0 2008-06-24 Original version.
1.1.0 2009-07-18 Add variable for manually overriding the category list.