User talk:Wolfie/CategoryTree

Welcome
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)
 * Like when someone changed the Frenzy template to say 10 seconds with 50% more damage taken, I had to go into the game and check just to be sure --Gimmethegepgun 03:32, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Request an update
Regular viewers of this Category Tree page who have perhaps made substantial changes to some category's parentage, or maybe added / removed a number of them, then you may wish to request an update of this page. Just add your signature to the box below. While I make no promises (it consumes an amount of my monthly bandwidth quota so there's the possiblity that if getting close to my limit, this might have to wait), since I'll only otherwise update this if/when do some changes myself, this provides a way for others to request an update.

Special:CategoryTree
See here. --◄mendel► 06:27, 20 November 2008 (UTC)