Merging categories

Question

Just out of curiosity: Is there anything that could be done without major effort to make categories mergeable? I'm just in the middle of moving about 500 profiles from one category to another due to a rearrangement of categories following the recent push to clarify category use. Would it have been nice to merge the categories instead of going profile by profile!

Answer 1

please forgive bad typing - i'm on a tablet.

i'm about 99% sure it is not possible in the current database structure.  if categorries (free space pages, too) had the same data structures as profiles  then itwould be possible.   there would be a lot of extra capabilities that would also be available with such a structure but it wwould ental VERY. major effort tio make the chnges necessary fior it.

Comments

Ooo ooo !! I have a relevant answer that someone else hasn't provided yet! I'm usually late to that party. ;-)

Anyway, there *is* a way to merge free-space pages, and here's the link: 

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:MergeSpace

I just went digging for that because I remembered a discussion about that over a year ago. I'll see if I can find something similar for Categories, but I'm pretty sure that functionality doesn't exist.

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Thank you so much Julie - that is great to know!!!

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You're welcome, Gaile!

Answer 2

Helmut,

Would be wonderful if we could.  I do not know of a method.

Phil

Answer 3

Here's another discussion from December addressing this issue:

Can we merge categories?

There's an answer from Rob Ton addressing the technical side of this issue.