Editing Talk:All Pages

== List generation ==
<pre>
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import pathlib
import urllib.request
import json

if not pathlib.Path('output').exists():
    pathlib.Path('output').mkdir()

all_pages_output_file = open('output/AllPages.mediawiki', 'w')

all_pages_output_file.write('[[Category: Indices]]\n\n')

category_output_files = {}

base_url = 'http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/'
page_titles_by_category = {}
category_titles_by_category = {}

def main():
    base_page_query = 'http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&aplimit=500&apfilterredir=nonredirects&format=json&apfrom='
    continue_title = ''
    page_titles = {}

    while True:
        request = urllib.request.urlopen(base_page_query + continue_title.replace(' ', '_'))
        response = request.read()
        results = json.loads(response.decode())
        for page in results['query']['allpages']:
            title = page['title']
            page_titles[title] = base_url + title
        if 'query-continue' in results:
            continue_title = results['query-continue']['allpages']['apcontinue']
        else:
            break

    page_title_queries = []
    page_title_query = ''

    for title, url in page_titles.items():
        if title != 'Main Page' and title != 'Search':
            page_title_query += title + '|'
            if len(page_title_query) > 50:
                page_title_queries.append(page_title_query.rstrip('|'))
                page_title_query = ''

    prop_page_query = 'http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&format=json&titles='

    for page_title_query in page_title_queries:
        request = urllib.request.urlopen(prop_page_query + page_title_query.replace(' ', '_'))
        response = request.read()
        results = json.loads(response.decode())
        for _, result in results['query']['pages'].items():
            if 'categories' not in result:
                print('\n\n')
                print(result['title'] + ' has no categories.')
                print('\n\n')
                continue
            progress = result['title'] + ' : '
            for category in result['categories']:
                if category['title'] not in page_titles_by_category:
                    page_titles_by_category[category['title']] = set()
                page_titles_by_category[category['title']].add(result['title'])
                progress += category['title'] + ', '
            print(progress.rstrip(', '))

    base_category_query = 'http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/api.php?action=query&list=allcategories&aclimit=500&acprop=size&format=json&acfrom='
    continue_category = ''
    category_titles = {}

    while True:
        request = urllib.request.urlopen(base_category_query + continue_category.replace(' ', '_'))
        response = request.read()
        results = json.loads(response.decode())
        for category in results['query']['allcategories']:
            if category['size'] is 0 or category['size'] is '0':
                continue
            title = category['*']
            category_titles[title] = base_url + title
        if 'query-continue' in results:
            continue_category = results['query-continue']['allcategories']['accontinue']
        else:
            break

    category_title_queries = []
    category_title_query = ''

    for title, url in category_titles.items():
        category_title_query += 'Category:' + title + '|'
        if len(category_title_query) > 50:
            category_title_queries.append(category_title_query.rstrip('|'))
            category_title_query = ''

    prop_category_query = 'http://heroes.thelazy.net/wiki/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&format=json&titles='

    for category_title_query in category_title_queries:
        request = urllib.request.urlopen(prop_category_query + category_title_query.replace(' ', '_'))
        response = request.read()
        results = json.loads(response.decode())
        for _, result in results['query']['pages'].items():
            if 'categories' not in result:
                print('\n\n')
                print(result['title'] + ' has no categories.')
                print('\n\n')
                continue
            progress = result['title'] + ' : '
            for category in result['categories']:
                if category['title'] not in category_titles_by_category:
                    category_titles_by_category[category['title']] = set()
                category_titles_by_category[category['title']].add(result['title'])
                progress += category['title'] + ', '
            print(progress.rstrip(', '))

    print('\n\n')
    print(page_titles_by_category)
    print('\n\n')
    print(category_titles_by_category)

    for category_title in sorted(category_titles_by_category['Category:Content']):
        category_file_name = ''.join([i for i in category_title if i.isalpha()])
        category_output_files[category_file_name] = open('output/' + category_file_name + '.mediawiki', 'w')
        category_output_files[category_file_name].write('[[Category: Indices]]\n\n')
        print_titles(category_file_name, category_title)

def print_titles(category_file_name, category_title, category_level='=', indent_level=''):
    all_pages_output_file.write(category_level + ' <span class="plainlinks">[' + base_url + category_title.replace(' ', '_') + ' ' + indent_level + category_title.split('Category:', 1).pop() + ']</span> ' + category_level + '\n\n')
    category_output_files[category_file_name].write(category_level + ' <span class="plainlinks">[' + base_url + category_title.replace(' ', '_') + ' ' + indent_level + category_title.split('Category:', 1).pop() + ']</span> ' + category_level + '\n\n')
    category_level += '='
    indent_level += '&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'
    if category_title in page_titles_by_category:
        for page_title in sorted(page_titles_by_category[category_title]):
            all_pages_output_file.write('<span class="plainlinks">[' + base_url + page_title.replace(' ', '_') + ' ' + indent_level + page_title + ']</span>\n\n')
            category_output_files[category_file_name].write('<span class="plainlinks">[' + base_url + page_title.replace(' ', '_') + ' ' + indent_level + page_title + ']</span>\n\n')
    if category_title in category_titles_by_category:
        for child_category_title in sorted(category_titles_by_category[category_title]):
            print_titles(category_file_name, child_category_title, category_level, indent_level)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
</pre>

== Discussion ==

Nice technical page, but I must ask is there any use for it? At least for me this seems quite useless, causing hinder rather than help. –[[User:Kapteeni Ruoska|Kapteeni Ruoska]] ([[User talk:Kapteeni Ruoska|talk]]) 06:11, 7 September 2016 (CEST)

:I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I was missing. When I'm browsing through the list it's easier to click these links than copy pasting the auto-generated titles from the api query.
:--[[User:imahero|imahero]] 03:14, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

::Sure, just wondering, as the wiki already has [[Special:AllPages]], but perhaps there is a use for that. –[[User:Kapteeni Ruoska|Kapteeni Ruoska]] ([[User talk:Kapteeni Ruoska|talk]]) 07:27, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

:::[[Special:AllPages]] felt too clumsy for me to navigate. All I really wanted was a single list of all nonredirect links :)
::: --[[User:imahero|imahero]] 08:31, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

I may want to go back to using the external link syntax if breaking the [[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]] is a big deal. For now I've just added the orphaned pages here and I'll just update the list every time I generate the AllPages list.<br>
--[[User:imahero|imahero]] 15:19, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

::I changed it back to use the external link syntax to make sure the [[Special:LonelyPages|orphaned pages]] list still works properly. <br>
:: --[[User:imahero|imahero]] 22:48, 8 September 2016 (CEST)

It's now sorted by category. <br>
--[[User:imahero|imahero]] 12:26, 10 September 2016 (CEST)