Extension:SelectCategory

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SelectCategory Release status: stable
Implementation	Page action
Description	Allows the user to select from existing categories when editing a page.
Author(s)	Leon Weber & Manuel Schneider
Last Version	0.7dev (2008-01-19)
MediaWiki	> 1.8.2
License	GPL
Download	Download snapshot Subversion [Help] Browse source code README CHANGELOG
Parameters $wgSelectCategoryNamespaces $wgSelectCategoryRoot
Hooks used EditPage::showEditForm:initial EditPage::attemptSave UploadForm:BeforeProcessing OutputPageParserOutput
check usage (experimental)

Screenshot of v0.1

The SelectCategory extension provides three functions:

• It shows a list of all categories (unless a custom root category is configured) in their hierarchical structure on the edit page.
• It strips all categories linked within a page upon editing and selects them in the category list list.
• It adds selected categories from the list to the text body of the page on saving.

[edit] Installation

[edit] Stable release (recommended for most uses)

To use the stable release, download the tarball linked in the box on the right, and uncompress it. Copy the SelectCategory directory into the extensions folder of your MediaWiki installation. Then add the following lines to your LocalSettings.php file (near the end):

require_once( 'extensions/SelectCategory/SelectCategory.php' );

[edit] Download from SVN trunk

To use the current SVN version, which might be unstable and full of bugs, use the following URL for your subversion client:

http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SelectCategory

[edit] Parameters

[edit] $wgSelectCategoryNamespaces

This is in your SelectCategory.php file

Defines in which namespaces the Extension should be active.

All namespaces are already predefined in the array. Set a specific namespace to true to enable or to false to disable the extension.

Active per default are: Media, Main, Project, Image, Help, Category.

Example

$wgSelectCategoryNamespaces[NS_PROJECT] = false;
$wgSelectCategoryNamespaces[NS_CATEGORY] = false;

Or

$wgSelectCategoryNamespaces     = array(
        NS_MEDIA                => true,
        NS_MAIN                 => true,
        NS_TALK                 => false,
        NS_USER                 => false,
        NS_USER_TALK            => false,
        NS_PROJECT              => true,
        NS_PROJECT_TALK         => false,
        NS_IMAGE                => true,
        NS_IMAGE_TALK           => false,
        NS_MEDIAWIKI            => false,
        NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK       => false,
        NS_TEMPLATE             => false,
        NS_TEMPLATE_TALK        => false,
        NS_HELP                 => true,
        NS_HELP_TALK            => false,
        NS_CATEGORY             => true,
        NS_CATEGORY_TALK        => false,
        100                     => true,  # customized namespace, e.g. ''Portal'', c.f. [[Manual:Using custom namespaces]]
        101                     => false  # customized namespace, e.g. ''Portal talk'', c.f. [[Manual:Using custom namespaces]]
);

[edit] $wgSelectCategoryRoot

Set a specific root category depending the namespace. Only categories within this root will be displayed when editing a page in a certain namespace.

Useful on big wiki sites to keep the database load down.

If not set (default) the extension searches for all root categories and displays them including all children.

[edit] Example

  $wgSelectCategoryRoot = array(
       NS_MEDIA                => false,
       NS_MAIN                 => "My Article Root Category",
       NS_TALK                 => false,
       NS_USER                 => false,
       NS_USER_TALK            => false,
       NS_PROJECT              => false,
       NS_PROJECT_TALK         => false,
       NS_IMAGE                => "My Image Root Category",
       NS_IMAGE_TALK           => false,
       NS_MEDIAWIKI            => false,
       NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK       => false,
       NS_TEMPLATE             => false,
       NS_TEMPLATE_TALK        => false,
       NS_HELP                 => false,
       NS_HELP_TALK            => false,
       NS_CATEGORY             => false,
       NS_CATEGORY_TALK        => false
  );

[edit] $wgSelectCategoryEnableSubpages

Defines if the extension should be active when editing subpages.

[edit] Example

 $wgSelectCategoryEnableSubpages = false;

[edit] Style

To customize the design of the select box use the CSS id "SelectCategoryBox" and attach your own settings to [[MediaWiki:Monobook.css]] or your users [[User:USERNAME/Monobook.css]].

[edit] Bugs & Feature Requests

Please file bugs and feature requests on the bug tracker on bugzilla.wikimedia.org in the bugzilla product "MediaWiki extensions" and its component "SelectCategory". You might just use this direct link that has these two settings pre-defined:

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=SelectCategory