Extension talk:SelectCategory

Download of tar does not work
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Has someone tried it on 1.6.8?
Is there a technical reason that it does not work there?


 * Yes, there is. We introduced new member variables which will be available in release 1.8.3. Otherwise it can't work. --80686 14:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

not removing categories
I think it's better if categories aren't removed from the edit box. I've sumitted a batch at 8359. It might also be nice if the categories had checkboxes next to them, but that seems a little more complicated; this simple solution makes the extension seem more useful for me. -Steve Sanbeg 20:06, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * working on it. It's not that easy, but it will work. On the other hand will this handling lack of the comfort the extension should provide. --Manuel Schneider(bla) (+/-) 21:57, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Cool. For the uses I see for it now, it isn't necessary to completely hide the categories; and this option would prevent someone from clicking a category on the list and accidently removing all of the existing categories. -Steve Sanbeg 17:08, 5 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I upgraded my wiki, and was starting to test in production when I discovered the cycle bug. so I guess that will have to wait. But I wanted to mention (in case you didn't notice) that my patch also fixes one other, minor bug; there was a missing preg_quote on the custom namespace, which could break if someone names their namespaces oddly. -Steve Sanbeg 19:24, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Fatal Error
I'm getting a fatal error when trying to create or edit a page using this extension. I'm Using Mediawiki 1.8.2.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method Title::isSubpage in /mounted-storage/home24b/sub001/sc112516-ZBLG/wiki/extensions/SelectCategory/SelectCategoryFunctions.php on line 25


 * SelectCategory doesn't work with MediaWiki 1.8.2. Go read the contents in the red box on SelectCategory. --Manuel Schneider(bla) (+/-) 19:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Considerations
I was about to post about that which was mentioned above - this definately shouldn't remove the categories from the edit box itself. The reason *I* was going to bring forward was different - lots of templates place pages they are transcluded onto into categories, and most such templates have their categories in tags. There are also other such cases where the placement within a page of the category tag matters - so I would appreciate it if the previous poster's suggestion and/or patch are applied, for very good reasons. Secondly, again, sometimes categories are assigned to a page by way of templates transcluded onto it, or other things - so it may be a good idea to list below the box the categories that the page is in that aren't in the box. Maybe also remove them from the box, as they shouldn't be unselected (or selected, for that matter) there.

One other thing I was considering, is that it might be a good idea to make this a seperate page - as in, perhaps a 'categorization' caction tab, or a 'categorize' button under the edit form along with save, preview, and changes - that way, a user could go to a SEPERATE page to work on the categories using this cool method, then return and see the changes - we don't really want two ways to do the same thing on one page, and having the AJAXified box AND the normal text box is exactly that - two ways to do the same thing. Did that make sense? I mean like the user clicks a 'categorize' button under the edit summary box, they get taken to perhaps a special page, or just another page action, where there is nothing but the selectcategories box, and a list of categories the page is in - then they can change them, and click 'save categories' to return. Peerless 03:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with that. Although I don't think this extension could ever work well in template space, my patch would prevent it from being a complete disaster.  A categorization tab could be cool. -Steve Sanbeg 19:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Enhancement
would a category cloud (like a delicious tag cloud) be possible. It strikes me that categories are equivalent to tag) and having the most popular ones most highlighted may be helpful.. (not so for esoteric subjects) but on the whole helpful. Perhaps mediawiki would be enhanced by tags as well as categories (sort of meta categories)

Bug When Category Name Has Space In It
I've noticed a bug in the current version from SVN (haven't checked the latest stable). If an article is part of a Category which has a space in it's name (example: Category:Test Servers), it doesn't show as selected in the list when editing the page (although the Category does show up in the list). Haven't tested what happens when I hit save but I assume it would be removed from the Category. --128.233.131.139 21:46, 23 March 2007 (UTC)