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I want to display all the categories in main page or any other page in MediaWiki just like how it displays in Special:Categories page.

Any help is appreciated.

leo
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  • Why not use Extension:CategoryTree? – stdob-- May 11 '16 at 06:02
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    I read about the extension .. i can see that it is used to visualise the structure of the categories. For example : Manual . This syntax is used to display the category structure of Manual category. What i want is like i want to display all the categories in my wiki. Is it possible thru Extenion:CategoryTree? – Mahahari May 11 '16 at 06:05

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The only built-in ways to display all categories are the special pages Special:Categories and Special:AllPages (in a default MediaWiki setup the categories are in NS 14, so Special:AllPages?namespace=14). Of those two, AllPages is transcludible, meaning that you can do like this on your main page:

{{Special:AllPages|namespace=14}}

If you want more control over the output, I suggest you use an extension like Semantic MediaWiki (advanced, full control), or CategoryTree (but as you noted, you will have to organize your category in a tree structure, with a common root).

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