Extension:CategoryOnUpload

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CategoryOnUpload Release status: stable
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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Parameters $wgCategoryOnUploadDefault $wgCategoryOnUploadAllowNone $wgCategoryOnUploadList
Hooks used UploadForm:initial UploadForm:BeforeProcessing
check usage (experimental)

The CategoryOnUpload extension adds a selection box to the upload page allowing users to choose a category.

[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.

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