Extension:ArticleToCategory2

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Article To Category 2 Release status: beta
Implementation	Page action
Description	Adds an inputbox to each category page. The content of new page will contain "[[category:]]" automatically. See doc. for optional features.
Author(s)	(MikaelLindmarktalk)
Last version	1.0 (15 March 2011)
MediaWiki	1.13+
License	GNU General Public License 3.0
Download	SVN [?]: checkout-url • tree • code changes
Parameters $wgarticletocategory2ConfigBlacklist
Hooks used EditFormPreloadText CategoryPageView
Check usage (experimental)

What can this extension do?

Article To Category 2 is based on the Add Article to Category extension by BiGreat (Liang Chen). It adds an inputbox to each category page. The content of new page will contain "[[Category:]]" automatically. See section Configuration parameters for optional behavior. Suggested changes and additions (exclude categories, i18n localisation, adding category, etc) by Julien Devincre and Cynthia Mattingly on the Extension talk:Add Article to Category is included.

Installation instructions

Create a subdirectory in your extensions directory:

cd /your/wiki/extensions
mkdir ArticleToCategory2

Download the extension and its dependencies using subversion (or use the info box on the right side of this page):

cd /your/wiki/extensions/ArticleToCategory2
svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ArticleToCategory2/ArticleToCategory2.php
svn checkout http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ArticleToCategory2/ArticleToCategory2.i18n.php

Add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/ArticleToCategory2/ArticleToCategory2.php");
$wgarticletocategory2ConfigBlacklist=false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['ArticleToCategory2'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['ArticleToCategory2AddCat'] = false;

Configuration parameters

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['ArticleToCategory2AddCat']

Set this flag to true and a second input box will be added, where the users may add categories into categories.

$wgarticletocategory2ConfigBlacklist

Set this flag to true to enable the category blacklist in "MediaWiki:Add Article to Category 2 excluded categories" page (you need to create this page first). Usage (example):

== Excluded Categories from Add To Article 2 Extension ==

;My Excluded category 1
;My Excluded category 2

;Another one

If you don't like the name of this page, you can replace it by changing the following line in the GetExcludedCategories() function :

     $specialcatpage='Add Article to Category 2 excluded categories';

See also

• Extension:Add Article to Category
• Extension:CreateArticle