Interesting; the code is still in your user area, though.
All of the "Standardized Categories for (state)" pages invoke the same templates as the "Standardized Categories for Maryland" page, which are in the normal "Template" name-space (
see bottom of this list), not my "QDP2012" user-space, as of 2015. (As expected, "state" values vary according to page viewed.)
View Source: Standardized Categories for Maryland:
Code:
{{Text_CatListIntro|State=Maryland}}
Code:
{{Text_CatListState|State=Maryland}}
Code:
{{Text_CatListStateUSFedMil|State=Maryland}}
Code:
{{Text_CatListFooter|State=Maryland}}
Something like this should probably be on each of the state and province pages - maybe as a template?
The template-generated list is too long to embed into a typical State/Province primary Wiki page, but I will certainly add to each State/Province's primary Wiki page a link to the corresponding "Standardized Categories for (state)" page. I will work on that this evening.
I can't look at the coding at work (where I am now) - how did you build the list of categories? If that was done manually, that could present a small maintenance headache, as adding a new category in one state might have to be manually propagated across everything else.
No worries on this point; maintenance of these lists/templates has not been a headache since they were created in 2015, nor do I expect it to become a headache, because the entire set of "Standardized Categories for (state)" pages are all template-driven (using the templates listed earlier in this post).
If another (as yet unnamed) "standardized category" is needed beyond the ones that exist now (like "(state) Buses and Taxis" or something we have not yet considered), then it is a fairly simple process to update the templates listed earlier in this post to include that new "standardized category". This will cause the new category to appear on all "Standardized Categories for (State)" pages, without having to touch each page.
If you were to incorporate the functionality of the findcat function, no manual intervention would be necessary.
Even though no manual intervention seems to be needed now with the "Standardized Categories pages", I will investigate this option also, and implement accordingly.
Thanks for the comments and suggestions,