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I have enabled HotCat in my preferences and enjoy using it with IE 7 on my Windows XP machine, but am having a few issues:
See Jocelyn Osorio for examples of both of these issues. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:17, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
HotCat.category_regexp = '[Cc][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Yy]|[Kk][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Ii][Ee]';
HotCat.category_regexp = '[Cc][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Yy]|[Kk][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Óó][Rr][Ii][Aa]';
On Wikipedia:HotCat#Search engines, there is a paragraph for the technically inclined that links to Category:Media with locations, which was deleted in 2008. Could you please replace this example with an existing category? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 19:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Apparently HotCat marks its changes as minor? This would seem to contradict my understanding of the definition at Help:minor (which doesn't mention categories at all; and as noted at Help_talk:Minor_edit#Is_add.2Fmodifying_Categories_minor.3F it should). HotCat and Help:Minor ought not to contradict each other; what should we do? Rd232 talk 22:05, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
When HotCat replaces a category, I think that the new category should go where the old category was, not at the end (as it is here, for example). Additionally, when removing a category from the middle of the list, the line should be removed, not emptied. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:32, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
I have a minor complaint. I have my preferences set to notify me when I leave the edit summary blank, and this somehow interferes when I use HotCat to add multiple categories. For example, in this edit, I added two categories using HotCat, which resulted in an automatic edit summary. Even so, it notifies me of a blank edit summary, despite the fact that the edit summary is very well not empty. Any idea why this is? — ξ xplicit 06:07, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
While I see the HotCat links on articles and talk pages, I don't see the HotCat links on template pages, such as Template:2010 Big East football standings. GoingBatty ( talk) 17:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
When adding one or more categories using HotCat, could HotCat also automatically remove the <!--- Categories ---> comment, since that would no longer be necessary? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 05:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Could you please change HotCat so it adds categories before stub templates and interlanguage links, per MOS:APPENDIX? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 05:50, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Further to Wikipedia talk:HotCat/Archive 1#Stub categories, it seems that HotCat still permits this, see here. This is not the only case I've seen in the last few weeks, but is one of the most recent. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 13:49, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
{{
Merchantship-stub}}
, and that stub template brings in just that one category. More complicated cases are quite common: {{
Macau-struct-stub}}
categorises the page in both
Category:Asian building and structure stubs and
Category:Macau geography stubs. The latter category can also be brought in by {{
Macau-geo-stub}}
, but no less than 24 different stub templates can categorise an article into
Category:Asian building and structure stubs.{{
asbox}}
template and nothing else. This has a mandatory |category=
parameter and two optional |category1=
and |category2=
parameters, each of which has a dual purpose. The primary purpose is to categorise the article; the secondary purpose is to place the template itself into said cats, sorted at the head. This should make it easier to determine the stub templates relating to a category, although as demonstrated earlier, there may well be more than one. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
18:17, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
I've added the javascript code to my vector.js file (and, just to be certain, on User:Nlu/monobook.js) and still I can't get the arrows to show up. (I am running Safari 5.0.3 on Mac OS 10.6.6.) Anyone got any idea what's happening? -- Nlu ( talk) 22:38, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
var hotcat_use_category_links = true;
", not "yes". "yes" is an undefined variable, so hotcat_use_category_links
ends up undefined, which evaluates to false
.
Lupo
10:38, 16 January 2011 (UTC)I made this by hand, because in the edit before Hotcat doesn't removed the "hidden maintenance category": Year of introduction missing. Can HotCat do this automatically? mabdul 12:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Could someone add to the project page (=the manual) the page where I can put a HotCat request, or a template? - DePiep ( talk) 12:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
When I look for categories for an article, I open up each linked item in the article and look at the categories for the linked page and consider adding them to the article. I then look at the talk page of those same linked items to find WikiProjects to add to the talk page. I recently did this for the article and talk page of the Transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing article. Is it possible to modify HotCats to compile a list of categories from the linked pages in an article to propose them as categories for the article? Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 07:49, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
In this edit, you'll notice that the edit summary says that I am adding the category "Women artists"; however HotCat instead replaced the existing category "Chinese artists" with Women artists. I only wanted to add a category, not replace. I noticed this behavior earlier on a different article with entirely different categories as well. Ladyof Shalott 06:10, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Even more bizarrely, here it removes two existing categories when I only asked it to add one. Ladyof Shalott 06:19, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I can not install HotCat, tried both activating from Gadgets tab and adding the script manually, I add the script and save the page and bypassed the cache but I have no + and - signs in Categories, here is my skin JavaScript page. Thanks Nima1024 ( talk) 21:41, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
<script type="text/javascript">if ( window.mediaWiki ) { ... "ext.gadget.HotCat",
I use Firefox 4.0 Final (x86) on x64 Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, I tried all the ways, including bypassing cache; What should I do now guys with this issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nima1024 ( talk • contribs) 09:12, 23 March 2011
Thank you all, Problem is solved now. Nima1024 ( talk) 15:39, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, the strange problem that I have with HotCat is that it only works for me after I have edited the page first. What I mean is that I go to any article and and HotCat doesn't work for me, even if I bypass my cache and so on. But then if I edit the page and save it, when the page reloads, suddenly HotCat works for me and I have the (+), (-) and so on. I've tried uninstalling and then reinstalling in my gadgets and also adding the code thing to my js and I've emptied my cache about a million times when trying all these things. Any suggestions of what it could be/how I could fix it? Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 20:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
importScript
and importScriptURI
being available to load its configuration. However, with the new way of loading HotCat as part of a resource set ("ext.gadget.HotCat") that
User:Billinghurst set up (see the section just above), these functions are not available anymore at the time HotCat needed them; at least on Safari 5.0.4.I use Firefox (latest version) with the Monobook skin, which is my preferred appearance. Hotcat has stopped working. I use the tickbox option in my preferences rather than a script. If I use the Vector skin it will work. Is this a bug? Should I load a script to get it to work in Monobook? -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 20:21, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
See bugzilla:28215, which, for me has the effect that HotCat isn't loaded at all, and NavigationPopups is missing its CSS. See also Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Did something happen to popups?. I have therefore reverted the change to MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition so that HotCat is not loaded through the resource loader for the time being. Lupo 08:49, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm working on deleting duplicate categories for WP:Check Wikipedia and was wondering if there is any way to use Hotcat to accomplish it. Lets say that a page has [[category:foo]][[category:bar]][[category:foo]]. I know going to the page that foo is duplicated, but there doesn't appear to be any way to use it to delete one of the instances. It only shows foo once in the categories at the end (just like without hotcat), but if I delete category:foo, it deletes both of them. Any ideas? Naraht ( talk) 05:14, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
See also: Wikipedia:AWB/FR#Enhance_logic_for_removing_duplicated_categories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:37, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Twice I've had an issue with HotCat, most recently at A Regular Frankie Fan. In both cases, I've been doing maintenance on the page and then adding categories with HotCat.
Apparently I've been too quick on the trigger with HotCat, because when it goes to post the categories, it's like it goes one edit back. In the case of today's edit, it wiped out the {{ Multiple issues}} template I put at the top of the article a minute before. (Note: I did add the DEFAULTSORT myself manually.)
Any ideas what's causing this glitch? — C.Fred ( talk) 19:32, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I've had this problem too! In this edit to Piazza della Rotonda, I removed a couple of stray brackets in a citation, and then a minute later with this edit using HotCat I added a category -- you'll notice that HotCat put the brackets right back in. (I'm using Firefox 4 and Windows Vista.) Glenfarclas ( talk) 19:39, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Is there a way to stop HotCat from adding articles to my watchlist? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:41, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
window.hotcat_dont_add_to_watchlist = true;
Hello. There seems to be a problem with HotCat's localized messages. These are sometimes shown in the local language, sometimes in English. One example: [2] [3]. The edits were made by the same user in an identical way in two successive edits. There's no apparent reason why the tool would suddenly change its language between those edits. Any idea what might be causing this? Jafeluv ( talk) 14:44, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
(←) Done. HotCat now properly waits until localizations and local settings are loaded;
commons:MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js updated. Tested additionally in FF3.6.18 and Safari 5.0.4 (6533.20.27) on Mac OS 10.6.
Lupo
08:45, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Although I followed the instructions to add "var hotcat_use_category_links = true;" to my javascript page back in October, I've never seen the "(↓)" and "(↑)" controls. I'm using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP, and have tried multiple PCs. Any suggestions? GoingBatty ( talk) 21:14, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
=true;
instead of =yes;
?
Jafeluv (
talk)
21:58, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
I occasionally see a user adding one of the maintenance categories under Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month using this program, instead of adding the appropriate maintenance template. If possible, it would be helpful for these categories to be on the blacklist. Anomie ⚔ 03:49, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to bring this bug to your attention. If you take a look at this diff, you can see, I edited this article to remove some uncited analysis, and saved my changes. Then, I removed a category using HotCat, which, while removing the category, also reverted my previous edits. I have never seen it do that before, but it is the 2nd time this has happened to me in the last half hour. Do you have any idea why this is happening? Thanks. --- RepublicanJacobite TheFortyFive 19:48, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Attempts to change [[Category:Foo| ]] to [[Category:Foo]] seem not to work. After deleting the last 2 chars and hitting OK, it reloads the same. (Firefox 7.0.1, MonoBook) jnestorius( talk) 11:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Leave it to IE9 for HotCat not to work correctly. Just noticed today that when clicking the down arrow and displaying the input box, the text box is almost completely covered up by the "combined search" term, that should be above it. Thus, one cannot see what one is supposedly typing into the text field box. Firefox works fine, of course. I also tried IE9 with different resolutions, still can't get it to work. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 18:28, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
I hate to pester you with minor points about hotcat, but I figured this was feedback and you might want to hear it. It is this: I actually liked it better when if you were setting up adjustment of more than one category and one of the categories was to be deleted, a strikethrough line was placed through the category. Now, I think it just colors the link orange/red. I liked it better before just because it was a bit more striking/obvious that you were about to actually delete that particular category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:10, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
<style type="text/css" media="all">a { text-decoration: underline !important; }
a.new, #quickbar a.new { color: #ba0000; }
</style>
Thanks for your help with the above, Lupo. One other thing I've been meaning to bring up for a little while—
Would it be worthwhile disabling hotcat for use on file pages in the same way that it is disabled on template pages? My reasoning is this: it has become fairly common for editors to mistakenly create WP pages of Commons mirror description pages by adding a category to the mirror page using hotcat. These WP pages then have to be speedily deleted per F2 and we have to go through the process of explaining to the editor why the WP page of the mirrored description page was deleted, and so forth. It's often very confusing for editors to understand what happened, and that they actually created a page by adding a category to it with hotcat. If an editor tries to create one of these pages via the normal method (not using hotcat), they receive a very noticeable pink warning page stating that they should not create this page unless they know what they are doing, etc. But of course in using hotcat they don't receive this warning.
It's not a huge deal, but disabling hotcat for use on file pages would reduce the work of going back and deleting these pages that are created this way. And it wouldn't be a huge loss, as non-Commons file pages on WP are not extensively categorized by hand anyway. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:31, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in creating a similar tool for stub sorting? For example, the user would be able to use navigation similar to HotCat to drill down from Category:Music stubs → Category:Musical group stubs → Category:United States musical group stubs, which would replace {{ music-stub}} with {{ US-band-stub}}? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 16:25, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Hallo, when I pointed out to an editor that s/he'd put a category after a {{ stub}} (which is wrong - see WP:FOOTERS - stub tags go after everything except inter-language links), they blamed HotCat and said that was where it had put the category. The same editor puts DEFAULTSORT after categories not before - not sure whether this is also a HotCat problem. Could someone check whether HotCat is actually sticking to the rules and preserving the order specified in WP:FOOTERS? Pam D 17:07, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
I reported this October, but not recall the response. After making an edit, saving, and then removing a category using HotCat, the previous edit I made is reversed, as can be seen in this diff. Does anyone have any idea why this happens, and, more importantly, how it can be corrected? Thanks! --- RepublicanJacobite TheFortyFive 22:00, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
wgCurRevisionId
that tells which particular version one is looking at. HotCat requests the wikitext of that precise wgCurRevisionId
, then modifies that to change categories, and then submits the changed text as an edit. I see exactly three possible ways in which this can fail:
wgCurRevisionId
is incorrect (for instance, if some other JavaScript fiddled with it) and denotes an earlier page version than the one shown. Possible, but rather unlikely, I think.
wgCurRevisionId
so that the value the server originally sent and that HotCat sees is outdated.
Lupo
10:53, 9 March 2012 (UTC)wgCurRevisionId
is correct, but the MediaWiki API somehow returns the wrong page text, namely the wikitext of the previous page revision.wgCurRevisionId
always is the latest revision ID of the page, even if you're looking at an old version. Furthermore, I notice that the API queries HotCat makes before submitting the edit actually do return again that latest revision ID, as well as the revision ID of the wikitext gotten. Hence HotCat can detect before submitting whether the page has been edited in the meantime, or whether it got back some other text than the one it had asked for, and therefore it can actually try to guard against such problems, and instead of saving automatically always force a diff view in such cases. I'll implement something to that effect. It won't avoid the problem completely (as I don't know what causes this, I can only combat symptoms), but if HotCat detects it, you'll at least have the possibility to review your change and not save it.
Lupo
13:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
How come there's no French version, and how can I fix that? -- Kevlar ( talk • contribs) 17:58, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Would make for a very slick interface alternative to the current implementation. nocnokneo ( talk) 06:33, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi - I tend to do this on commons at lot more than here but I'm asking here anyway - it it possible to have the page auto save and skip the conventional save screen when altering more than one category - this happens a lot for me. Mddkpp ( talk) 16:54, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
mw.loader.using("mediawiki.user", function () {
$('body').delegate('#hotcatCommitForm', 'submit', function () {
var submitType = this.wpDiff;
if (submitType && (!this.oldid || this.oldid == '0')) {
// Switch form submission from diff to save. Don't do this if "oldid" is set to anything but '0':
// that indicates an edit conflict with yourself, and in that case you really, really do want
// to see the diff!
this.wpEditToken.value = mw.user.tokens.get("editToken");
submitType.name = submitType.value = 'wpSave';
}
return true;
});
});
The code above is not working for me at all on Commons. It was mentioned on the Twinkle talk page that $ may not work as an alias for jQuery anymore; but it still didn't work when I tried substituting jQuery or window.jQuery for the $. Any ideas? — Darkwind ( talk) 23:55, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Bots (such as Clydebot) sometimes move categories to dashed versions, following the punctuation of the main article. That means HotCat will no longer recognize the hyphenated form of the name, which is what most people will try to enter – most will have no idea what the problem is, or how to type a dash if they did know.
Could you adjust HotCat to recognize dashes and hyphens as equivalent?
Thanks, — kwami ( talk) 04:28, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I've been using HotCat for a few years now without problems, but just now I noticed the symbols (-) and (±) next to categories have changed to (â) and (±). I realize I use a fairly non-mainstream browser (
Konqueror 4.8.3), but I know this wasn't happening as recently as May 31. I don't see it in Firefox 12.0, so it's not an OS issue. Any ideas?
Ntsimp (
talk)
06:19, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Why HotCat here inserted the invisible character U+200E ( LTR mark) at the end of the category? If you edit the article and use the backspace on this category you will notice an invisible character between novels and ]]. Is it a bug? -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 18:46, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Category:Stubs should never be added directly to an article (only using {{ stub}}), so could HotCat please not allow editors to do so? here's an example of HotCat being used to do this by a newbie editor: it would be more helpful if HotCat warned/prevented this. Pam D 10:32, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
When adding categories to an article that has no categories other than those created thru stub templates, the new categories are placed after the stub categories. However if existing categories precede stub categories any additions are placed ahead of the stub categories.
This creates an inconsistency in Wikipedia. Ottawahitech ( talk) 04:26, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
I second this. I have reported this bug a long time ago. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:39, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
It just vanished completely for me between categorizing one article and the next, but it's still checked in my Gadgets tab, I looked. Katharineamy ( talk) 00:44, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
For example, Category:Transformers is an ambiguous category, but HotCat seems to ignore the template {{ Category ambiguous}}. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 20:59, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
HotCat.disambig_category = 'Disambiguation categories';
in
MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js/local defaults.
Lupo
05:53, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
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I have enabled HotCat in my preferences and enjoy using it with IE 7 on my Windows XP machine, but am having a few issues:
See Jocelyn Osorio for examples of both of these issues. Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 15:17, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
HotCat.category_regexp = '[Cc][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Yy]|[Kk][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Ii][Ee]';
HotCat.category_regexp = '[Cc][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Oo][Rr][Yy]|[Kk][Aa][Tt][Ee][Gg][Óó][Rr][Ii][Aa]';
On Wikipedia:HotCat#Search engines, there is a paragraph for the technically inclined that links to Category:Media with locations, which was deleted in 2008. Could you please replace this example with an existing category? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 19:20, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
Apparently HotCat marks its changes as minor? This would seem to contradict my understanding of the definition at Help:minor (which doesn't mention categories at all; and as noted at Help_talk:Minor_edit#Is_add.2Fmodifying_Categories_minor.3F it should). HotCat and Help:Minor ought not to contradict each other; what should we do? Rd232 talk 22:05, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
When HotCat replaces a category, I think that the new category should go where the old category was, not at the end (as it is here, for example). Additionally, when removing a category from the middle of the list, the line should be removed, not emptied. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:32, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
I have a minor complaint. I have my preferences set to notify me when I leave the edit summary blank, and this somehow interferes when I use HotCat to add multiple categories. For example, in this edit, I added two categories using HotCat, which resulted in an automatic edit summary. Even so, it notifies me of a blank edit summary, despite the fact that the edit summary is very well not empty. Any idea why this is? — ξ xplicit 06:07, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
While I see the HotCat links on articles and talk pages, I don't see the HotCat links on template pages, such as Template:2010 Big East football standings. GoingBatty ( talk) 17:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
When adding one or more categories using HotCat, could HotCat also automatically remove the <!--- Categories ---> comment, since that would no longer be necessary? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 05:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Could you please change HotCat so it adds categories before stub templates and interlanguage links, per MOS:APPENDIX? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 05:50, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Further to Wikipedia talk:HotCat/Archive 1#Stub categories, it seems that HotCat still permits this, see here. This is not the only case I've seen in the last few weeks, but is one of the most recent. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 13:49, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
{{
Merchantship-stub}}
, and that stub template brings in just that one category. More complicated cases are quite common: {{
Macau-struct-stub}}
categorises the page in both
Category:Asian building and structure stubs and
Category:Macau geography stubs. The latter category can also be brought in by {{
Macau-geo-stub}}
, but no less than 24 different stub templates can categorise an article into
Category:Asian building and structure stubs.{{
asbox}}
template and nothing else. This has a mandatory |category=
parameter and two optional |category1=
and |category2=
parameters, each of which has a dual purpose. The primary purpose is to categorise the article; the secondary purpose is to place the template itself into said cats, sorted at the head. This should make it easier to determine the stub templates relating to a category, although as demonstrated earlier, there may well be more than one. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
18:17, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
I've added the javascript code to my vector.js file (and, just to be certain, on User:Nlu/monobook.js) and still I can't get the arrows to show up. (I am running Safari 5.0.3 on Mac OS 10.6.6.) Anyone got any idea what's happening? -- Nlu ( talk) 22:38, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
var hotcat_use_category_links = true;
", not "yes". "yes" is an undefined variable, so hotcat_use_category_links
ends up undefined, which evaluates to false
.
Lupo
10:38, 16 January 2011 (UTC)I made this by hand, because in the edit before Hotcat doesn't removed the "hidden maintenance category": Year of introduction missing. Can HotCat do this automatically? mabdul 12:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Could someone add to the project page (=the manual) the page where I can put a HotCat request, or a template? - DePiep ( talk) 12:31, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
When I look for categories for an article, I open up each linked item in the article and look at the categories for the linked page and consider adding them to the article. I then look at the talk page of those same linked items to find WikiProjects to add to the talk page. I recently did this for the article and talk page of the Transmission electron microscopy DNA sequencing article. Is it possible to modify HotCats to compile a list of categories from the linked pages in an article to propose them as categories for the article? Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 07:49, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
In this edit, you'll notice that the edit summary says that I am adding the category "Women artists"; however HotCat instead replaced the existing category "Chinese artists" with Women artists. I only wanted to add a category, not replace. I noticed this behavior earlier on a different article with entirely different categories as well. Ladyof Shalott 06:10, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Even more bizarrely, here it removes two existing categories when I only asked it to add one. Ladyof Shalott 06:19, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Hello, I can not install HotCat, tried both activating from Gadgets tab and adding the script manually, I add the script and save the page and bypassed the cache but I have no + and - signs in Categories, here is my skin JavaScript page. Thanks Nima1024 ( talk) 21:41, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
<script type="text/javascript">if ( window.mediaWiki ) { ... "ext.gadget.HotCat",
I use Firefox 4.0 Final (x86) on x64 Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, I tried all the ways, including bypassing cache; What should I do now guys with this issue? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nima1024 ( talk • contribs) 09:12, 23 March 2011
Thank you all, Problem is solved now. Nima1024 ( talk) 15:39, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there, the strange problem that I have with HotCat is that it only works for me after I have edited the page first. What I mean is that I go to any article and and HotCat doesn't work for me, even if I bypass my cache and so on. But then if I edit the page and save it, when the page reloads, suddenly HotCat works for me and I have the (+), (-) and so on. I've tried uninstalling and then reinstalling in my gadgets and also adding the code thing to my js and I've emptied my cache about a million times when trying all these things. Any suggestions of what it could be/how I could fix it? Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 20:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
importScript
and importScriptURI
being available to load its configuration. However, with the new way of loading HotCat as part of a resource set ("ext.gadget.HotCat") that
User:Billinghurst set up (see the section just above), these functions are not available anymore at the time HotCat needed them; at least on Safari 5.0.4.I use Firefox (latest version) with the Monobook skin, which is my preferred appearance. Hotcat has stopped working. I use the tickbox option in my preferences rather than a script. If I use the Vector skin it will work. Is this a bug? Should I load a script to get it to work in Monobook? -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 20:21, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
See bugzilla:28215, which, for me has the effect that HotCat isn't loaded at all, and NavigationPopups is missing its CSS. See also Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Did something happen to popups?. I have therefore reverted the change to MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition so that HotCat is not loaded through the resource loader for the time being. Lupo 08:49, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
I'm working on deleting duplicate categories for WP:Check Wikipedia and was wondering if there is any way to use Hotcat to accomplish it. Lets say that a page has [[category:foo]][[category:bar]][[category:foo]]. I know going to the page that foo is duplicated, but there doesn't appear to be any way to use it to delete one of the instances. It only shows foo once in the categories at the end (just like without hotcat), but if I delete category:foo, it deletes both of them. Any ideas? Naraht ( talk) 05:14, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
See also: Wikipedia:AWB/FR#Enhance_logic_for_removing_duplicated_categories. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 16:37, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
Twice I've had an issue with HotCat, most recently at A Regular Frankie Fan. In both cases, I've been doing maintenance on the page and then adding categories with HotCat.
Apparently I've been too quick on the trigger with HotCat, because when it goes to post the categories, it's like it goes one edit back. In the case of today's edit, it wiped out the {{ Multiple issues}} template I put at the top of the article a minute before. (Note: I did add the DEFAULTSORT myself manually.)
Any ideas what's causing this glitch? — C.Fred ( talk) 19:32, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
Hey, I've had this problem too! In this edit to Piazza della Rotonda, I removed a couple of stray brackets in a citation, and then a minute later with this edit using HotCat I added a category -- you'll notice that HotCat put the brackets right back in. (I'm using Firefox 4 and Windows Vista.) Glenfarclas ( talk) 19:39, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Is there a way to stop HotCat from adding articles to my watchlist? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:41, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
window.hotcat_dont_add_to_watchlist = true;
Hello. There seems to be a problem with HotCat's localized messages. These are sometimes shown in the local language, sometimes in English. One example: [2] [3]. The edits were made by the same user in an identical way in two successive edits. There's no apparent reason why the tool would suddenly change its language between those edits. Any idea what might be causing this? Jafeluv ( talk) 14:44, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
(←) Done. HotCat now properly waits until localizations and local settings are loaded;
commons:MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js updated. Tested additionally in FF3.6.18 and Safari 5.0.4 (6533.20.27) on Mac OS 10.6.
Lupo
08:45, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Although I followed the instructions to add "var hotcat_use_category_links = true;" to my javascript page back in October, I've never seen the "(↓)" and "(↑)" controls. I'm using Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP, and have tried multiple PCs. Any suggestions? GoingBatty ( talk) 21:14, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
=true;
instead of =yes;
?
Jafeluv (
talk)
21:58, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
I occasionally see a user adding one of the maintenance categories under Category:Wikipedia maintenance categories sorted by month using this program, instead of adding the appropriate maintenance template. If possible, it would be helpful for these categories to be on the blacklist. Anomie ⚔ 03:49, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
I wanted to bring this bug to your attention. If you take a look at this diff, you can see, I edited this article to remove some uncited analysis, and saved my changes. Then, I removed a category using HotCat, which, while removing the category, also reverted my previous edits. I have never seen it do that before, but it is the 2nd time this has happened to me in the last half hour. Do you have any idea why this is happening? Thanks. --- RepublicanJacobite TheFortyFive 19:48, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
Attempts to change [[Category:Foo| ]] to [[Category:Foo]] seem not to work. After deleting the last 2 chars and hitting OK, it reloads the same. (Firefox 7.0.1, MonoBook) jnestorius( talk) 11:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Leave it to IE9 for HotCat not to work correctly. Just noticed today that when clicking the down arrow and displaying the input box, the text box is almost completely covered up by the "combined search" term, that should be above it. Thus, one cannot see what one is supposedly typing into the text field box. Firefox works fine, of course. I also tried IE9 with different resolutions, still can't get it to work. -- Funandtrvl ( talk) 18:28, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
I hate to pester you with minor points about hotcat, but I figured this was feedback and you might want to hear it. It is this: I actually liked it better when if you were setting up adjustment of more than one category and one of the categories was to be deleted, a strikethrough line was placed through the category. Now, I think it just colors the link orange/red. I liked it better before just because it was a bit more striking/obvious that you were about to actually delete that particular category. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:10, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
<style type="text/css" media="all">a { text-decoration: underline !important; }
a.new, #quickbar a.new { color: #ba0000; }
</style>
Thanks for your help with the above, Lupo. One other thing I've been meaning to bring up for a little while—
Would it be worthwhile disabling hotcat for use on file pages in the same way that it is disabled on template pages? My reasoning is this: it has become fairly common for editors to mistakenly create WP pages of Commons mirror description pages by adding a category to the mirror page using hotcat. These WP pages then have to be speedily deleted per F2 and we have to go through the process of explaining to the editor why the WP page of the mirrored description page was deleted, and so forth. It's often very confusing for editors to understand what happened, and that they actually created a page by adding a category to it with hotcat. If an editor tries to create one of these pages via the normal method (not using hotcat), they receive a very noticeable pink warning page stating that they should not create this page unless they know what they are doing, etc. But of course in using hotcat they don't receive this warning.
It's not a huge deal, but disabling hotcat for use on file pages would reduce the work of going back and deleting these pages that are created this way. And it wouldn't be a huge loss, as non-Commons file pages on WP are not extensively categorized by hand anyway. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:31, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Would anyone be interested in creating a similar tool for stub sorting? For example, the user would be able to use navigation similar to HotCat to drill down from Category:Music stubs → Category:Musical group stubs → Category:United States musical group stubs, which would replace {{ music-stub}} with {{ US-band-stub}}? Thanks! GoingBatty ( talk) 16:25, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
Hallo, when I pointed out to an editor that s/he'd put a category after a {{ stub}} (which is wrong - see WP:FOOTERS - stub tags go after everything except inter-language links), they blamed HotCat and said that was where it had put the category. The same editor puts DEFAULTSORT after categories not before - not sure whether this is also a HotCat problem. Could someone check whether HotCat is actually sticking to the rules and preserving the order specified in WP:FOOTERS? Pam D 17:07, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
I reported this October, but not recall the response. After making an edit, saving, and then removing a category using HotCat, the previous edit I made is reversed, as can be seen in this diff. Does anyone have any idea why this happens, and, more importantly, how it can be corrected? Thanks! --- RepublicanJacobite TheFortyFive 22:00, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
wgCurRevisionId
that tells which particular version one is looking at. HotCat requests the wikitext of that precise wgCurRevisionId
, then modifies that to change categories, and then submits the changed text as an edit. I see exactly three possible ways in which this can fail:
wgCurRevisionId
is incorrect (for instance, if some other JavaScript fiddled with it) and denotes an earlier page version than the one shown. Possible, but rather unlikely, I think.
wgCurRevisionId
so that the value the server originally sent and that HotCat sees is outdated.
Lupo
10:53, 9 March 2012 (UTC)wgCurRevisionId
is correct, but the MediaWiki API somehow returns the wrong page text, namely the wikitext of the previous page revision.wgCurRevisionId
always is the latest revision ID of the page, even if you're looking at an old version. Furthermore, I notice that the API queries HotCat makes before submitting the edit actually do return again that latest revision ID, as well as the revision ID of the wikitext gotten. Hence HotCat can detect before submitting whether the page has been edited in the meantime, or whether it got back some other text than the one it had asked for, and therefore it can actually try to guard against such problems, and instead of saving automatically always force a diff view in such cases. I'll implement something to that effect. It won't avoid the problem completely (as I don't know what causes this, I can only combat symptoms), but if HotCat detects it, you'll at least have the possibility to review your change and not save it.
Lupo
13:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
How come there's no French version, and how can I fix that? -- Kevlar ( talk • contribs) 17:58, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
Would make for a very slick interface alternative to the current implementation. nocnokneo ( talk) 06:33, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi - I tend to do this on commons at lot more than here but I'm asking here anyway - it it possible to have the page auto save and skip the conventional save screen when altering more than one category - this happens a lot for me. Mddkpp ( talk) 16:54, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
mw.loader.using("mediawiki.user", function () {
$('body').delegate('#hotcatCommitForm', 'submit', function () {
var submitType = this.wpDiff;
if (submitType && (!this.oldid || this.oldid == '0')) {
// Switch form submission from diff to save. Don't do this if "oldid" is set to anything but '0':
// that indicates an edit conflict with yourself, and in that case you really, really do want
// to see the diff!
this.wpEditToken.value = mw.user.tokens.get("editToken");
submitType.name = submitType.value = 'wpSave';
}
return true;
});
});
The code above is not working for me at all on Commons. It was mentioned on the Twinkle talk page that $ may not work as an alias for jQuery anymore; but it still didn't work when I tried substituting jQuery or window.jQuery for the $. Any ideas? — Darkwind ( talk) 23:55, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
Bots (such as Clydebot) sometimes move categories to dashed versions, following the punctuation of the main article. That means HotCat will no longer recognize the hyphenated form of the name, which is what most people will try to enter – most will have no idea what the problem is, or how to type a dash if they did know.
Could you adjust HotCat to recognize dashes and hyphens as equivalent?
Thanks, — kwami ( talk) 04:28, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
I've been using HotCat for a few years now without problems, but just now I noticed the symbols (-) and (±) next to categories have changed to (â) and (±). I realize I use a fairly non-mainstream browser (
Konqueror 4.8.3), but I know this wasn't happening as recently as May 31. I don't see it in Firefox 12.0, so it's not an OS issue. Any ideas?
Ntsimp (
talk)
06:19, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
Why HotCat here inserted the invisible character U+200E ( LTR mark) at the end of the category? If you edit the article and use the backspace on this category you will notice an invisible character between novels and ]]. Is it a bug? -- Basilicofresco ( msg) 18:46, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Category:Stubs should never be added directly to an article (only using {{ stub}}), so could HotCat please not allow editors to do so? here's an example of HotCat being used to do this by a newbie editor: it would be more helpful if HotCat warned/prevented this. Pam D 10:32, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
When adding categories to an article that has no categories other than those created thru stub templates, the new categories are placed after the stub categories. However if existing categories precede stub categories any additions are placed ahead of the stub categories.
This creates an inconsistency in Wikipedia. Ottawahitech ( talk) 04:26, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
I second this. I have reported this bug a long time ago. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 10:39, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
It just vanished completely for me between categorizing one article and the next, but it's still checked in my Gadgets tab, I looked. Katharineamy ( talk) 00:44, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
For example, Category:Transformers is an ambiguous category, but HotCat seems to ignore the template {{ Category ambiguous}}. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 20:59, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
HotCat.disambig_category = 'Disambiguation categories';
in
MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js/local defaults.
Lupo
05:53, 29 May 2012 (UTC)