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Joe Quick
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« on: March 16, 2007, 08:32:50 PM »
Is there a way to write code for a page that would show all of the articles that are not in a particular category?  For example, all articles that are not checklisted?  This would help us maintain the article checklists after the initial push with the Big Cleanup and maybe allow us to dump [[Category:CZ Live]].
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Jason "Electrawn" Potkanski
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« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2007, 06:55:54 PM »
Short Answer: No.

Longer Answer: Categories are stored inside the text of the article itself..to search down categories requires intensive, wasteful CPU time.

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Joe Quick
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« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2007, 11:46:17 PM »
Okay, thanks.  I figured something like that would already be in place if it were practical, but I had to ask anyway Wink.
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Joe Quick
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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2007, 01:32:14 PM »
Okay, how about this?

A tool that will compare the contents of two different categories.  So, for instance, I could compare the contents of [[Category:Checklisted articles]] against [[Special:Allpages]]

Would this also eat up cpu time?
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Zachary Pruckowski
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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2007, 02:52:25 PM »
Relevant manual page

It looks possible to do it that way.  We'd have a pile of cur_id values, which I imagine could be translated to page_id values, from when we could use the page table to get names.

But I am not a database expert.
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2007, 10:18:46 AM »
I guess I have a python script for it (python is easy to use; it is included in most Linux distributions and may be installed on many platforms (in particular, a quick installation on windows is available). For more details see www.python.org).
In fact, the script allows to determine the intersection of or the difference between any two categories (Special:Allpages included). So if you are interested in it, please send me a personal mail on this forum (just click to see my profile and scroll down to Additional Info). I'd readily share it but I don't think that publishing the code would be the best solution now.
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« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2007, 02:08:03 AM »
Forgotten to add that now we have [[CZ:Unchecklisted Articles]], see here .
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« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2007, 01:45:36 PM »
Quote from: Aleksander Stos on May 16, 2007, 02:08:03 AM
Forgotten to add that now we have [[CZ:Unchecklisted Articles]], see here .

I saw that.  Very cool.  And exactly what I had in mind. Wink
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