Auto Create Category Pages

Auto Create Category Page (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Auto_Create_Category_Page) (what a mouthful!) is a MediaWiki extension which automatically creates stub pages for non-existent categories as soon as they are linked to, avoiding the confusing default behavior of "There is currently no text in this page..." or redirecting to the edit page.

Compatibility

Version 1.0.0 and beyond are compatible with MediaWiki 1.25+. The previous version should work with MediaWiki 1.21-1.24.

Installation

See INSTALL file for configuration options.

Caveats

This extension is currently not recommended for use on large wikis, as it doesn't implement any caching of its database queries (for retrieving the list of existing category pages).

Credits

Auto Create Category Pages was originally created as "Uniwiki Auto Create Category Pages" by Merrick Schaefer, Mark Johnston, Evan Wheeler & Adam Mckaig, as part of the Uniwiki project for UNICEF (see [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Uniwiki Category:Uniwiki]).

As Uniwiki extensions for MediaWiki are not maintained by the original developers anymore (according to an e-mail by Mark Johnston from Nov 9, 2012 ), the maintenance of this one extension was taken up by [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:FreedomFighterSparrow Dror S.]

License

The extension was released under GPLv3. See LICENSE file for more details.

Short changelog

• Version 1.0.3, 2017-05-10: [bugfix] The extension caused page save to fail if no it had no categories
• Version 1.0.2, 2017-03-25: A much improved query of pre-existing categories, by Brent Laabs (labster)
• Version 1.0.1, 2016-02-01: Fix bug where only the first new category page was actually created
• Version 1.0.0, 2015-05-24: Convert to extension registration for MW 1.25
• Version 0.2.0, 2013-10-28: updated to work with MW 1.21.x & MW 1.22alpha.
• Version 0.1.0, 2008-08-01: original release.