Comments - Watching KB pages

8 years, 7 months ago Paul Weiss

Thanks for the Unwatch button! For category pages, I want to know when a new page is added to the category (which, if you system is MediaWiki-like may not be possible), and whether text is added (if the system allows that kind of thing).

Sorry for the unclarity of my other question. Currently the categories assigned to a page are not visible to us when we click on Edit or Source. The Embedding categories in categories page says:

"For category pages with lots of entries, it may make sense to organize things under various headings.

To accomplish this we have created the ability to embed categories in their parent category.

See the Data Types page for an example of this.

Currently, the ability to do this is restricted to admins, but if you come across a category page that could benefit from this, please contact us."

I was wondering if the categories could be displayed in the source coe for the page, and whether users would be allowed to create and edit categories.

 
8 years, 7 months ago Bryan Alsdorf

Watching categories will be difficult to implement but I'll think about the best way to handle it.

Your idea to display the categories on the source / edit page is good and I'll implement that. Users with access have a page for that but the majority of users do not.

By default we restrict users from editing categories because it was more difficult to rollback bad changes to categories then content and a few other reasons. However, you have been contributing good work and we really appreciate that so I have marked you as a "trusted" contributor and you should have a few more permissions now, including the ability to create and edit categories. Thanks for your support of MariaDB!

 
8 years, 7 months ago Paul Weiss

Thanks! I am not seeing categories yet. Do I need to do something first to enable that?

Not sure what to do about selecting an "answer". Should we just delete the whole thread? And continue any other conversation off-wiki?

 
8 years, 7 months ago Bryan Alsdorf

You should see a button on the left hand side of the article (under edit) labeled "Edit Parents". If not, let me know and I'll look into it.

I'll just mark the whole question answered and yes, feel free to email me directly if you have any more questions or issues. bryan [at] mariadb [dot] com

 
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