Extension talk:CategoryTree

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done. Thanks all.

The local translations are not linked to the messages of the EN page because these ones are not defined. Can we implement the <translate> sections to have synchronized translations ? Thank you.

Christian Wia (talk) 08:56, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Yes, although currently translated pages will revert to the english one once the page is marked for translation, and someone will need to manually copy and paste the existing translations into the corresponding translation units...

ok I have reviewed the FR page totaly and leave it synchronised with the EN one to have a complete parallel translation when the individual messages will appear.

You can do the review after the page has been marked for translation, since messages can have variables once it's translated. Let's add translate tags first on the EN page.

ok but I wanted to finalize FR to have a global view since it's a big page. I 'll work on the EN page progressively now.

done

Hi all. In paragraph "Using MediaWiki: namespace pages" the two red links MediaWiki:Sidebarcategorytree MediaWiki:Sidebarcategorytree-url identify missing pages. Action: remove them ? or keep but with what inside ?

Thanks.

Christian Wia (talk) 19:29, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

They are perfectly OK. If you want category tree link in your sidebar, you should create them. MediaWiki.org doesn’t want, so they haven’t been created here. A possible content is shown right after the links (the #ifeq codes).

no I dont wank RED links on the documentation page. Same as in this topic. Do you see red ? . That 's what to correct.

Use template "Blue" for this, as in MediaWiki:Sidebarcategorytree-url. :)

.... develop Karsten bitte does not exist as it is formulated => https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebarcategorytree-url

You mean adding content to this system message? No, this is not intended on this wiki. Probably I totally missed the point of this thread.

ok if it is not intended so I keep the text and remove the link definition on the EN page.

Hi all, In paragraph :

=== Clicking the ► has no effect, gives a JavaScript error or just sits on loading ===

... the bleeding edge is at

The link https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/CategoryTree.git;a=tree does not exist.

Thanks.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/CategoryTree <= this root is accepted https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/ECTR/

Christian Wia (talk) 15:07, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

I've fixed the link

the tree still shows deleted pages.

Tree shows old version of renamed page.

Any fix?

thx

Try turn off cache with

$wgCategoryTreeDisableCache = true;

IF that doesn't work, check that solution to turn off web cache: User:Urfiner#Remove_cache

Running the `runJobs.php` maintenance script forced the categorytree to update for me.

Are there options to control how the tree is sorted? Ideally I'd like to be able to have the subcategories and articles sorted together instead of first subcategories and then articles, but I'm also curious what other options are available that might be interesting. If none are available, could this feature be added?

When assigning pages to categories you can add a sort key, e.g. [[Category:categoryname|sortkey]] Jonathan3 (talk) 13:31, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

In mobile view (via Extension MobileFrontend) the collapse and expand bullets are not shown ... only the empty-bullet (grey) is visible.

is there any posibility to get this working?

Should work since MediaWiki 1.31 phab:T171767

oh - okay --- we use MW 1.27.5 at the moment ... so we have to wait until we plan and do an update :)

The replacement doesnt work in MW 1.27 - it works only "on load" - after click on the image (for toggle) the other bullet isn't shown. it displays the given wiki code for the other bullet - like with "nowiki" tags around it - on the page. And then the toggle back (after clicking on this "textlink") still shows the code and doesn't display the first bullet again ...

Could you clarify the problem? Some screenshots would certainly help. (You can upload them to a free image share website if you don’t want to sign up on MediaWiki.org.)

No solution yet ... we try the latest master-branch in some minutes ... maybe this will work?! i will give a report here after that ...

okay, the latest master-branch needs MW 1.29 at least ... so it doesn't work with MW 1.27

We try now the Extension Version for MW1.25 ... other users say that the problems with the collapse/expand pictures came with 1.26 ...

Extension Snapshot 1.25 also doesn't work ... with MW 1.27 ...

here i have some screenshots which shows the initial page, the "bad" design at toggle and the also bad design after toggle back at two examples ...

solved - i changed ".text" for collapse and expand node in ext.categoryTree.js to ".html" ... now it shows my images correctly ...

Hi,

I am having an issue with this extension after upgrading MW from 1.22 to 1.26. I have also updated my CategoryTree extension from whatever version I had installed a couple of years ago to the latest available version, so I am not sure to which of these upgrades my issue is related.

In our wiki, back in MW 1.22 and the old CT version, we had changed the color of the category tree bullets by changing MediaWiki:categorytree-collapse-bullet, MediaWiki:categorytree-expand-bullet and MediaWiki:categorytree-empty-bullet to something like this:

<span style="color:#ffd15a;">▼</span>

This was working fine, but now, in MW 1.26 with the latest CT version, if I click on a ► bullet to expand the category tree, the clicked bullet is replaced by:

<span style="color:#ffd15a;">▼</span>

... as if the contents of MediaWiki:categorytree-collapse-bullet were enclosed in <nowiki> tags.

Is this intentional behaviour? Or is it a bug?

Either way, how can I change the color (or content) of the bullets in the latest CategoryTree version?

Maybe (just thinking out loud here), editing MediaWiki:Common.css and adding a CategoryTreeToggle style definition there? Haven't tried this...

Thanks in advance

just started working on a mediawiki site and had issues with the CategoryTree 1.26 extension. I ended up using an older version (I used 1.23). My issue with the 1.26 CategoryTree extension was it hid all of the WYSIWG buttons for the wiki editor.

I did change the color of my triangles. The CSS looks different than yours in my version of CategoryTree. The triangle element had a class surrounded it, so it was easy to target. Hope that helps

@Rbirmann I've got the same "span" problem since my upgrade to MW1.26... Did you find something to fix it?

EDIT : ok sorry I just totally forgot that I changed MediaWiki:categorytree-collapse-bullet page long time ago! It's better to remove it and use CSS...

Is there any solution to display some images instead of the triangles in MW 1.27 or newer? Can someone give some instructions. Thanks Gerd

Hi, I apologise if this may sound silly but I have just come across this category tree which seems very handy but I need just lists of categories and subcategories (like an xml/ json file) as opposed to a visual API of the tree. I realise I could use this API and gradually construct my own list but would ideally like to not have to spend time implementing this if there is a faster route.

I have also come across pywikibot which is suggested below for downloading pages with specific categories, but I am needing to download a lot of pages that fall under the categories "science" and "technology" so a bot is not the best option (I am currently working with the wikidump data: enwiki-20170820-pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 (25.86gb))

I have the same task, have you succeed in the your question?

Hi all,

Would it be possible to split a long list into multiple horizontal columns?

For example, every 50 categories, a new list is created on the right (keeping the alphabetical order)

Thanks for your help!

I would also like to know if this functionality is possible. I have a category with 300 member pages, which I would like to display on my main page. Currently, the CategoryTree extension displays one page per line. I would like to use a four or five column table to improve site aesthetics and make the list more readable.

Something like:

<table>

<tr><td>Page A</td><td>Page B</td><td>Page C</td><td>Page D</td></tr>

<tr><td>Page E</td><td>Page F</td><td>Page G</td><td>Page H</td></tr>

</table>

Where/how could/should such display output be implemented?

Use template:columns from wikipedia. Just put the categorytree inside the template:columns.

You could use <categorytree style="column-count:5;-moz-column-count:5;-webkit-column-count:5"> CategoryXY </categorytree>