Wikipedia talk:HotCat

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Show hidden categories in red

The list of categories looks the same. It is only after the user adds one that doesn't show up after being added, that one discovers he added a hidden category (shown elsewhere on the page)! Jidanni (talk) 04:06, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Jidanni, please try enabling the checkbox: Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Show hidden categories. —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:52, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I had that checked. Jidanni (talk) 13:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Can't disable HotCat

I disabled "HotCat" function but it still shows a categories in the down of article. What should i do? Vladimir1371 (talk) 17:19, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Vladimir1371, the categories are part of the regular interface of Wikipedia (powered by MediaWiki). All readers see the categorization at the bottom of all pages. Does that answer your question? —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

HotCat is not working for me

It's enabled in the WP:PREF but its not working for me. What could be the issue? Saqib (talk) 09:25, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

It's enabled for me too, but it won't work on my school computer. I don't know the issue either. Sparkbean (talk) 13:16, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Disregard

Bulk cat additions

Could somebody please explain how to add Category:Companies in the S&P 400 to all the pages in Template:S&P 400 companies ? 92.71.60.61 (talk) 12:33, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

It's simply placed in the transcludable (outside the noinclude tags) text of the template as stated at WP:TCAT; which also discourages using templates to categorize in this way. Note this would only work for the articles that already have the navbox to begin with, and I've found at least one where that's not the case.

Later today, I would be happy to just go ahead add the category (and the template) to any that don't already have it. Shouldn't really take me that long. --DB1729^talk 13:34, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

JFYI, for semi-automatic addition of a single category to a multitude of pages, the best fit is the Cat-a-lot tool, not HotCat. For trickier cases (e.g. adding a category and a template), there is WP:AWB and WP:JWB. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:58, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done – Task completed. --DB1729^talk 20:45, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Wow! Thank you so much. I spent about a week creating the category, a further week creating the template, and a further 2 weeks adding it to (almost) all the pages. And in the space of 2 hours, you added the category to them all! Really allreciate your effort, so fast, and you've been really helpful. A true selfless hero. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.71.60.61 (talk) 09:44, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

hehe. You're welcome. Glad to help out. I had figured it would take a little over an hour to maybe 90 minutes at most, but the Wikimedia servers went out twice during my session (I don't think my speed overloaded it:) I actually felt I was taking my time). The outages gave me a couple nice little breaks though, which probably helped. Cheers! DB1729^talk 10:57, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

(All good now!) Encountered a bug in eswiki

Hello! I'm coming from eswiki, where I use HotCat a lot. I use it too in enwiki, but the problem I found happened in eswiki. As you can see in my countributions, I've been using HotCat a lot these past two days, and in two of those times, the tool also deleted a lot of content from the page I was modifying the categories of. In this case, this and this edit.

I thought it was my fault and I somehow messed up with the keyboard, but then I tried again in the first case and the same number of bytes was deleted. And if you look closely in the second example, there seems to be a new category added which is empty, this one: '[[Categoría:]]'

I tried going back to a previous edit, but even then, the text missing wouldn't show up, so I had to ask someone else to undo my edits. I don't know what could be happening. One of those changes was modifying an already existing category and the other was adding new categories to an article.

Thank you for your help and time. Anónime (Talk; they/them) 19:03, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello again, I've been trying to find what was going on the whole day and I managed to find a firefox extension that was somehow affecting the text that appeared on the edit text box when clicking on "edit" or when changing multiple categories with HotCat.

Sorry about it and thank you! Anónime (Talk; they/them) 22:43, 19 September 2024 (UTC)