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ApiQueryCategories: Don't provide namespace for each category
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Description

When querying the categories for a page, the list is returned, along with the namespace for each category. Since all categories are in the same namespace, this is unneeded.

Example query: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&format=json&prop=categories&titles=Barack%20Obama&cllimit=max

Current output
{
    "batchcomplete": "",
    "query": {
        "pages": {
            "534366": {
                "pageid": 534366,
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Barack Obama",
                "categories": [
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:1961 births"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:20th-century American male writers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:20th-century Protestants"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:20th-century scholars"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:21st-century American male writers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:21st-century American politicians"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:21st-century Presidents of the United States"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:21st-century Protestants"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:21st-century scholars"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:AC with 30 elements"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Activists from Illinois"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:African-American Christians"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:African-American United States presidential candidates"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:African-American United States senators"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:African-American academics"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:African-American educators"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:African-American feminists"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:African-American non-fiction writers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:African-American state legislators in Illinois"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:All Wikipedia articles written in American English"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American Nobel laureates"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American Protestants"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American civil rights lawyers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American community activists"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American feminist writers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American gun control advocates"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American legal scholars"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American male non-fiction writers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American memoirists"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of English descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of French descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of German descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of Irish descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of Kenyan descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of Luo descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of Scottish descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of Swiss descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American people of Welsh descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American political writers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:American politicians of Luo descent"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Articles containing video clips"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Articles with Curlie links"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Articles with Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica links"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Articles with Internet Archive links"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Articles with LibriVox links"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Articles with Project Gutenberg links"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Articles with hAudio microformats"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Articles with short description"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Barack Obama"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id)"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:CS1 errors: missing periodical"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Candidates in the 2008 United States presidential election"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Candidates in the 2012 United States presidential election"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Columbia University alumni"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Democratic Party (United States) presidential nominees"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Democratic Party Presidents of the United States"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Democratic Party United States senators"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Featured articles"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Grammy Award winners"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Harvard Law School alumni"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:HuffPost writers and columnists"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Illinois Democrats"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Illinois lawyers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Illinois state senators"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Living people"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Male feminists"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Nobel Peace Prize laureates"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Obama family"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Occidental College alumni"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Pages containing links to subscription-only content"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Pages including recorded pronunciations (English)"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Pages with editnotices"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Politicians from Chicago"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Politicians from Honolulu"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Presidents of the United States"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Proponents of Christian feminism"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Punahou School alumni"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:United States senators from Illinois"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:University of Chicago Law School faculty"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Use American English from August 2018"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Use mdy dates from March 2019"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with BNC identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NCL identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NLR identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with RSL identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with SBN identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with USCongress identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages"
                    },
                    {
                        "ns": 14,
                        "title": "Category:Writers from Chicago"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "limits": {
        "categories": 500
    }
}
Ideal output
{
    "batchcomplete": "",
    "query": {
        "pages": {
            "534366": {
                "pageid": 534366,
                "ns": 0,
                "title": "Barack Obama",
                "categories": [
                    "Category:1961 births",
                    "Category:20th-century American male writers",
                    "Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers",
                    "Category:20th-century Protestants",
                    "Category:20th-century scholars",
                    "Category:21st-century American male writers",
                    "Category:21st-century American non-fiction writers",
                    "Category:21st-century American politicians",
                    "Category:21st-century Presidents of the United States",
                    "Category:21st-century Protestants",
                    "Category:21st-century scholars",
                    "Category:AC with 30 elements",
                    "Category:Activists from Illinois",
                    "Category:African-American Christians",
                    "Category:African-American United States presidential candidates",
                    "Category:African-American United States senators",
                    "Category:African-American academics",
                    "Category:African-American educators",
                    "Category:African-American feminists",
                    "Category:African-American non-fiction writers",
                    "Category:African-American state legislators in Illinois",
                    "Category:All Wikipedia articles written in American English",
                    "Category:American Nobel laureates",
                    "Category:American Protestants",
                    "Category:American civil rights lawyers",
                    "Category:American community activists",
                    "Category:American feminist writers",
                    "Category:American gun control advocates",
                    "Category:American legal scholars",
                    "Category:American male non-fiction writers",
                    "Category:American memoirists",
                    "Category:American people of English descent",
                    "Category:American people of French descent",
                    "Category:American people of German descent",
                    "Category:American people of Irish descent",
                    "Category:American people of Kenyan descent",
                    "Category:American people of Luo descent",
                    "Category:American people of Scottish descent",
                    "Category:American people of Swiss descent",
                    "Category:American people of Welsh descent",
                    "Category:American political writers",
                    "Category:American politicians of Luo descent",
                    "Category:Articles containing video clips",
                    "Category:Articles with Curlie links",
                    "Category:Articles with Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica links",
                    "Category:Articles with Internet Archive links",
                    "Category:Articles with LibriVox links",
                    "Category:Articles with Project Gutenberg links",
                    "Category:Articles with hAudio microformats",
                    "Category:Articles with short description",
                    "Category:Barack Obama",
                    "Category:CS1 Indonesian-language sources (id)",
                    "Category:CS1 errors: missing periodical",
                    "Category:Candidates in the 2008 United States presidential election",
                    "Category:Candidates in the 2012 United States presidential election",
                    "Category:Columbia University alumni",
                    "Category:Democratic Party (United States) presidential nominees",
                    "Category:Democratic Party Presidents of the United States",
                    "Category:Democratic Party United States senators",
                    "Category:Featured articles",
                    "Category:Grammy Award winners",
                    "Category:Harvard Law School alumni",
                    "Category:HuffPost writers and columnists",
                    "Category:Illinois Democrats",
                    "Category:Illinois lawyers",
                    "Category:Illinois state senators",
                    "Category:Living people",
                    "Category:Male feminists",
                    "Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society",
                    "Category:Nobel Peace Prize laureates",
                    "Category:Obama family",
                    "Category:Occidental College alumni",
                    "Category:Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia",
                    "Category:Pages containing links to subscription-only content",
                    "Category:Pages including recorded pronunciations (English)",
                    "Category:Pages with editnotices",
                    "Category:Politicians from Chicago",
                    "Category:Politicians from Honolulu",
                    "Category:Presidents of the United States",
                    "Category:Proponents of Christian feminism",
                    "Category:Punahou School alumni",
                    "Category:United States senators from Illinois",
                    "Category:University of Chicago Law School faculty",
                    "Category:Use American English from August 2018",
                    "Category:Use mdy dates from March 2019",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with BNC identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with CINII identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with LNB identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NCL identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NLP identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NLR identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NSK identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with RERO identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with RKDartists identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with RSL identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with SBN identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with ULAN identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with USCongress identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers",
                    "Category:Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages",
                    "Category:Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages",
                    "Category:Writers from Chicago"
                ]
            }
        }
    },
    "limits": {
        "categories": 500
    }
}

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DannyS712 created this task.Oct 25 2019, 8:26 PM
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Umherirrender subscribed.Oct 26 2019, 7:42 AM

That would be a breaking change for a less smaller response, but for nothing more.
Also all titles reported in the same way in the api, with a ns + title attribute.

Reedy closed this task as Declined.Oct 26 2019, 9:35 AM
Reedy subscribed.

I agree. I don't see any real benefit of doing this. Hence declining

DannyS712 moved this task from Unsorted to Archive on the User-DannyS712 board.Oct 28 2019, 10:05 AM
Anomie subscribed.Oct 28 2019, 1:55 PM

Seconding the decline.

Also note the "ideal output" requested would not work when clprop is used.

Aklapper removed a subscriber: Anomie.Oct 16 2020, 5:28 PM
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