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   Doug Webb (douginamug@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:26:44 JST Doug Webb

   Say you have a #mediawiki with a lot of uncategorized pages.

   How can you batch add/edit categories without going page by page?

   Playing around with cat-a-lot, but it seems not possible to use it on Special:AllPages.

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:26:43 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @douginamug pywikibot? :P

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:37:45 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @douginamug Is the "quick start guide" helpful? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Third-party_Wiki_Quick_Start

     There's a category.py so if you have a list of titles to work with it most of the work is done. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/category.py

     If you don't have a list of titles and you prefer a GUI with checkboxes, perhaps ReplaceText can do the job. You just need to be careful with regular expressions as it can be quite disruptive! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text

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     Doug Webb (douginamug@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:37:47 JST Doug Webb

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     • Nemo_bis 🌈

     @nemobis haha, if you tell me how, I'll try!

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     Nemo_bis 🌈 (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 06:06:12 JST Nemo_bis 🌈

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     @douginamug Ah yes... probably a browser extension to open all links in tabs would help more. :)

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     Doug Webb (douginamug@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 06:06:14 JST Doug Webb

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     • Nemo_bis 🌈

     @nemobis thanks so much!

     I sadly have to be honest with myself, that I should probably just do it all manually, once, and afterwards most new pages will be given categories as they are written 🤷 it is only about 100... https://wiki.kanthaus.online/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1