Extension:ManageCategories

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ManageCategories

Release status: beta

Implementation Page action
Description User-friendly way to add and remove categorization tags.
Author(s) Florian Mayrhuber
MediaWiki 1.5 or higher
Download managecategories.zip
Example http://www.infovis-wiki.net
Hooks used

EditPage::showEditForm:initial

[edit] ManageCategories

ManageCategories extends the editpage with capabilities to categorize the article in a user-friendly way. The extension also allows to remove existing categorizations.

ManageCategories is located below the main textarea and consists of 3 parts.

  • A select box to choose from all the wikis categories
  • Atext field to assign the article to a new category
  • (optional) Check boxes representing the currently assigned categories

All inputs or changes to these fields are then transformed to wiki markup and put into the textarea.

[edit] Installation

  • Download zip file containing source files. (update: i moved the donwload to box.net)
  • Unpack archive into the extensions directory of your mediawiki installation
  • Add the following line at the end of your LocalSettings.php:
require_once("$IP/extensions/managecategories/managecategories.php");

[edit] Usage

  • To add an existing category to the article pick it from the selectbox and click add.
  • To add a new category enter the category name into the text field and click create.
  • To remove a categorization uncheck the corresponding checkbox.
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