diff --git a/framework/CHANGELOG.md b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
index 2669d36bb6..a4ee3964c1 100644
--- a/framework/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/framework/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Yii Framework 2 Change Log
 - Enh #10264: Generation of HTML tags in Yii's JavaScript now uses jQuery style (silverfire)
 - Enh #10267: `yii.js` - added original event passing to `pjaxOptions` for links with `data-method` and `data-pjax` (servocoder, silverfire)
 - Enh #10319: `yii\helpers\VarDumper::dump()` now respects PHP magic method `__debugInfo()` (klimov-paul)
+- Enh #10359: Support wildcard category name in `yii/console/controllers/MessageController` (rmrevin)
 - Enh: Added last resort measure for `FileHelper::removeDirectory()` fail to unlink symlinks under Windows (samdark)
 - Chg #9369: `Yii::$app->user->can()` now returns `false` instead of erroring in case `authManager` component is not configured (creocoder)
 - Chg #9411: `DetailView` now automatically sets container tag ID in case it's not specified (samdark)
diff --git a/framework/console/controllers/MessageController.php b/framework/console/controllers/MessageController.php
index 10b4ebf89c..f8e10329b2 100644
--- a/framework/console/controllers/MessageController.php
+++ b/framework/console/controllers/MessageController.php
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ class MessageController extends Controller
      */
     public $catalog = 'messages';
     /**
-     * @var array message categories to ignore. For example, 'yii'.
+     * @var array message categories to ignore. For example, 'yii', 'app*', 'widgets/menu', etc.
+     * @see isCategoryIgnored
      */
     public $ignoreCategories = [];
 
@@ -478,7 +479,7 @@ EOD;
                             $category = stripcslashes($buffer[0][1]);
                             $category = mb_substr($category, 1, mb_strlen($category) - 2);
 
-                            if (!in_array($category, $ignoreCategories, true)) {
+                            if (!$this->isCategoryIgnored($category, $ignoreCategories)) {
                                 $message = stripcslashes($buffer[2][1]);
                                 $message = mb_substr($message, 1, mb_strlen($message) - 2);
 
@@ -520,6 +521,37 @@ EOD;
         return $messages;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The method checks, whether the $category is ignored according to $ignoreCategories array.
+     * Examples:
+     *
+     * - `myapp` - will be ignored only `myapp` category;
+     * - `myapp*` - will be ignored by all categories beginning with `myapp` (`myapp`, `myapplication`, `myapprove`, `myapp/widgets`, `myapp.widgets`, etc).
+     *
+     * @param string $category category that is checked
+     * @param array $ignoreCategories message categories to ignore.
+     * @return boolean
+     */
+    protected function isCategoryIgnored($category, array $ignoreCategories)
+    {
+        $result = false;
+
+        if (!empty($ignoreCategories)) {
+            if (in_array($category, $ignoreCategories, true)) {
+                $result = true;
+            } else {
+                foreach ($ignoreCategories as $pattern) {
+                    if (strpos($pattern, '*') > 0 && strpos($category, rtrim($pattern, '*')) === 0) {
+                        $result = true;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        return $result;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Finds out if two PHP tokens are equal
      *
diff --git a/tests/framework/console/controllers/BaseMessageControllerTest.php b/tests/framework/console/controllers/BaseMessageControllerTest.php
index 802daab421..6e309bf6ee 100644
--- a/tests/framework/console/controllers/BaseMessageControllerTest.php
+++ b/tests/framework/console/controllers/BaseMessageControllerTest.php
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ abstract class BaseMessageControllerTest extends TestCase
     {
         $category = 'test_category2';
         $message = 'test message';
-        $sourceFileContent = "Yii::t('{$category}', '{$message}')";
+        $sourceFileContent = "Yii::t('{$category}', '{$message}');";
         $this->createSourceFile($sourceFileContent);
 
         $this->saveConfigFile($this->getConfig());
@@ -256,9 +256,9 @@ abstract class BaseMessageControllerTest extends TestCase
         ], $category);
 
         $newMessage = 'test new message';
-        $sourceFileContent = "Yii::t('{$category}', '{$zeroMessage}')";
-        $sourceFileContent .= "Yii::t('{$category}', '{$falseMessage}')";
-        $sourceFileContent .= "Yii::t('{$category}', '{$newMessage}')";
+        $sourceFileContent = "Yii::t('{$category}', '{$zeroMessage}');";
+        $sourceFileContent .= "Yii::t('{$category}', '{$falseMessage}');";
+        $sourceFileContent .= "Yii::t('{$category}', '{$newMessage}');";
         $this->createSourceFile($sourceFileContent);
 
         $this->saveConfigFile($this->getConfig());
@@ -345,25 +345,29 @@ abstract class BaseMessageControllerTest extends TestCase
     {
         $category1 = 'category1';
         $category2 = 'category2';
+        $category3_wildcard = 'category3*';
+        $category3_test = 'category3-test';
 
         $message1 = 'message1';
         $message2 = 'message2';
         $message3 = 'message3';
 
-        $this->saveConfigFile($this->getConfig(['ignoreCategories' => ['category2']]));
+        $this->saveConfigFile($this->getConfig(['ignoreCategories' => [$category2, $category3_wildcard]]));
 
         // Generate initial translation
-        $sourceFileContent = "Yii::t('{$category1}', '{$message1}'); Yii::t('{$category2}', '{$message2}');";
+        $sourceFileContent = "Yii::t('{$category1}', '{$message1}'); Yii::t('{$category2}', '{$message2}'); Yii::t('{$category3_test}', '{$message3}');";
         $source = $this->createSourceFile($sourceFileContent);
         $out = $this->runMessageControllerAction('extract', [$this->configFileName]);
         unlink($source);
 
         $messages1 = $this->loadMessages($category1);
-        $messages2 = $this->loadMessages($category2, false);
+        $messages2 = $this->loadMessages($category2);
+        $messages3 = $this->loadMessages($category3_test);
 
-        $this->assertArrayHasKey($message1, $messages1, "message1 not found in category1. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
-        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message2, $messages2, "message2 found in category2. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
-        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message3, $messages2, "message3 found in category2. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
+        $this->assertArrayHasKey($message1, $messages1, "{$message1} not found in {$category1}. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
+        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message2, $messages2, "{$message2} found in {$category2}. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
+        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message3, $messages2, "{$message3} found in {$category2}. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
+        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message3, $messages3, "{$message3} found in {$category3_test}. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
 
         // Change source code, run translation again
         $sourceFileContent = "Yii::t('{$category1}', '{$message1}'); Yii::t('{$category2}', '{$message3}');";
@@ -372,10 +376,10 @@ abstract class BaseMessageControllerTest extends TestCase
         unlink($source);
 
         $messages1 = $this->loadMessages($category1);
-        $messages2 = $this->loadMessages($category2, false);
-        $this->assertArrayHasKey($message1, $messages1, "message1 not found in category1. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
-        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message3, $messages2, "message3 not found in category2. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
-        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message2, $messages2, "message2 found in category2. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
+        $messages2 = $this->loadMessages($category2);
+        $this->assertArrayHasKey($message1, $messages1, "{$message1} not found in {$category1}. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
+        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message2, $messages2, "{$message2} found in {$category2}. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
+        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey($message3, $messages2, "{$message3} not found in {$category2}. Command output:\n\n" . $out);
     }
 
     /**