User categories creation should be able to use templates
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	Dec 11 2018, 9:37 AM

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New features

This is an update for what kind of content can be stored within MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-main: they now support templates, which allows you to create a single design and categorize categories.

See good examples at

French Wikipedia:
Russian Wikipedia:

Description

When babel creates a new user category using MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-main, it interprets the content of the page. It means that if a template is used for these categories (as on WP:FR), we cannot make babel generate the pages with the template as this one is transcluded. We tried on WP:FR (see this message) to use the template, and got this behavior instead of that one.

As suggested by an administrator on this page, this has to do with the function BabelAutoCreate::create(), which should use ->plain() instead of ->text().
I'm not familiar with the WM extensions code, so I wouldn't know if this is the correct action to take. However, using templates is a basic action of wikipedia, and babel should support it.

I found the T168610 task in which the same issue is reported.

Thanks, Epok.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Allow babel categories to autocreate using templates	mediawiki/extensions/Babel	master	+2 -2

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T33097: Automatically created categories should be categorized: xx-y in xx, xx in <babel-footer-url>'s category
T328193: By default, insert a template in the category description instead of plain text
Mentioned Here: T168610: Can bot Babel AutoCreate automatically categorize newly created categories?

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Epok created this task.Dec 11 2018, 9:37 AM

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Iniquity moved this task from Backlog to Categories on the MediaWiki-extensions-Babel board.Jan 12 2019, 4:37 PM

Epok updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 24 2019, 8:17 PM

Pppery moved this task from Categories to Babel AutoCreate on the MediaWiki-extensions-Babel board.Jan 21 2023, 1:09 AM

Change 881947 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[mediawiki/extensions/Babel@master] Allow babel categories to autocreate using templates

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/881947

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 21 2023, 1:11 AM

Pppery claimed this task.Jan 21 2023, 1:11 AM

Thanks @Pppery for claiming this task.

Iniquity mentioned this in T328193: By default, insert a template in the category description instead of plain text.Jan 28 2023, 1:15 PM

Change 881947 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Babel@master] Allow babel categories to autocreate using templates

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/881947

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 28 2023, 1:30 PM

Umherirrender closed this task as Resolved.Jan 28 2023, 1:31 PM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.40-notes (1.40.0-wmf.21; 2023-01-30).Jan 28 2023, 2:00 PM

It works! @Epok, @Pppery thanks! :)
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Категория:User_ik-5

I will open task for publishing in TechNews:

Tech/News Proposed Copy
The system for creating automatic categories for the Babel extension has had several important changes and fixes. One of them allows you to insert templates for automatic category descriptions on creation, allowing you to categorize categories. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T211665], [https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шаблон:Категория_Вавилона], [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T64714], [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170654], [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184941], [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T33074]

Quiddity moved this task from To Triage to In current Tech/News draft on the User-notice board.Mar 31 2023, 12:40 AM

I suggest adding a brief summary to the top of the Task Description, of what (if anything) editors need to do on their local wikis, in order to use this new functionality. (for people looking here from Tech News).
If I understand correctly, it's essentially something like....

This is an update for what kind of content can be stored within MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-main.
They now support templates.
See good (????) examples at https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels&action=edit and https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-main&action=edit and the results at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Utilisateur_ota-0 and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Utilisateur_ota

In T211665#8747103, @Quiddity wrote:

I suggest adding a brief summary to the top of the Task Description, of what (if anything) editors need to do on their local wikis, in order to use this new functionality. (for people looking here from Tech News).
If I understand correctly, it's essentially something like....

This is an update for what kind of content can be stored within MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels and MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-main.
They now support templates.
See good (????) examples at https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-levels&action=edit and https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Babel-autocreate-text-main&action=edit and the results at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Utilisateur_ota-0 and https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catégorie:Utilisateur_ota