MediaWiki talk:Gadget-HotCat.js/Archive05

no leading ":"

Sometimes I mess up copy and paste and the category name is preceded by ":". This leads to Hotcat adding categories like [[:Category::Samples]] instead of Category:Samples (diff) Mediawiki doesn't even render them as categories.

Ideally, HotCat would strip leading ":" from category names directly. Enhancing999 (talk) 08:03, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

"New key" edit summary

When you add or change a sortkey for a single category using HotCat, this is reflected in the edit summary as new key for Category:X: "N, N". But when you change sortkeys for multiple categories, this results in a category-change type of summary: ±Category:X; ±Category:Y.

It would be neat if the latter case could result in more accurate edit summaries, but this obviously isn't a very pressing matter. Sinigh (talk) 12:48, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Feature request: Ignore square brackets

If a user enters (e.g. by pasting from the clipboard) [[Category:Foobar]], HotCat should understand this as intended to be Foobar (as it does when the user enters Category:Foobar). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:07, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

 Support Marsupium (talk) 01:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

i think the code to change is probably the part from line 991. RZuo (talk) 07:34, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

This feature is great to insert multiple categories at once via HotCat.

inserting England]][[Category:France]][[Category:Belgium leads to all three categories inserted in one swoop, without needing to go to the confirmation window. --Enyavar (talk) 10:47, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Minor bug report

Thank you so much for maintaining HotCat. It saves a lot of time when categorizing pages.

I noticed that HotCat tries to re-format the <noinclude></noinclude> tags it encounters. However, there's a minor glitch: HotCat adds an extra space after the opening tag during said re-formatting. Example edit: en:Special:Diff/1228393712.

Before, all in one line:

}}<noinclude>[[Category:Userboxes|Human]]</noinclude>

After, split over three lines, with placeholder ␣ instead of the space for demonstration purposes:

}}<noinclude>␣
[[Category:Human life user templates|Human]]
</noinclude>

—⁠andrybak (talk) 00:35, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

User Categories with HotCat?

Is it possible to use user categories with HotCat?

Any advice/guidance, suggestions, or best practices?

--CmdrDan (talk) 20:30, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

HotCat is agnostic to whether a category is a topic, a user or a technical category, as long as it’s defined directly on the page (not by a transcluded template), so I don’t think any specific guidance or best practices are required – the same applies to HotCat as to adding/changing the category manually. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 13:42, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

This also includes hidden categories, which can also be added via HotCat. So yes, this is no problem. --Enyavar (talk) 10:54, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Phabricator ticket T367888

the bug in one image

Hi, after the village pump advised me to go to Phabricator with my bug, a user over there advised me to come here. I don't want to re-write and re-formulate, so please see the full description in ticket T367888: Category options past the top frame of the Commons window are non-clickable.

Thanks. --Enyavar (talk) 10:54, 22 June 2024 (UTC)