User talk:Wolfie/CategoryTree

As regular viewers of the Recent changes log will know, I have been working on cleaning up the Uncategorised pages (last count, over 230 "cat fixed" in the last batch) and noticed a few others having a go too. One thing I found really needed was a listing of all the categories and their relationships, so decided to code up a program (I call it "SpiderCat") to produce the User:Wolfie/CategoryTree page. Maybe others will find this useful too, but before anyone starts changing category parentage, please for the love of humanity use bucket-loads of care and caution, or things can get messy. --Wolfie (talk|contribs) 01:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Holy crap. Take you a while to do this? Very good work, keep it up!--[[Image:Marcopolo47 signature new.jpg]] (Talk) (Contr.) 01:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Wolfie... buddy... please tell me... are you a robot? --Gimmethegepgun 01:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Me?! No, every one of my edits is lovingly crafted by my own two hands. "SpiderCat" simply uses web-browsing routines to grab a list of categories from Special:Categories then visit each one to learn what parents and children it has (with appropriate pauses to ensure it doesn't swarm the wiki servers), and then munges it all together into the tree you see. --Wolfie [[Image:Wolfie_sig.jpg|19px]] (talk|contribs) 01:57, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Let me summarize my response in one word: Huh?--[[Image:Marcopolo47 signature new.jpg]] (Talk) (Contr.) 01:58, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Huh?-"Am I a robot?" or Huh?-"How SpiderCat works", because I am mildly offended by Gimme's insinuation that I don't check, preview and test all my edits, it's why i don't botther getting involved with vandal-swatting anymore, am "too slow" because actually check my facts before just trying to be the "first" to revert. --Wolfie [[Image:Wolfie_sig.jpg|19px]] (talk|contribs) 02:11, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean to offend, and I didn't mean it like that either. I meant: "You just made a 270 THOUSAND character page, wtf?" --Gimmethegepgun 02:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Umm, for most vandal fighting, there's no real "facts" to check. There's just obvious vandalism. However, if someone minutely changes a skill template, and it's believable, then I can see where you're coming from.--[[Image:Marcopolo47 signature new.jpg]] (Talk) (Contr.) 03:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)