Listing members of a large category repeatedly broken
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	Svick
	Apr 6 2010, 11:31 PM

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I run a tool (http://svick.aspweb.cz/CatWatch.aspx) that watches additions and removals of pages to categories. It seems that every few days, several hundred members of [[Category:Stub-Class Academic Journal articles]] are removed from the listing of the category and later again readded, while nothing changes on the actual member pages or the template used.

Most recent incidents:
3.4.2010 21:36 1314 pages were removed
4.4.2010 10:22 1314 pages were added
6.4.2010 22:16 821 pages were removed

Currently, for example [[Talk:American Economic Review]] isn't listed in the category, but the page itself shows that it is member of the category. The page itself hasn't changed for several months.

Version: 1.16.x
Severity: normal

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Reference: bz23074

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:10 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Categories.

• bzimport set Reference to bz23074.

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Svick created this task.Apr 6 2010, 11:31 PM

Actually it IS listed, but under T (for "T"alk:American Economic Review).

I'd say it's either a poorly made template ([[Template:WikiProject Academic Journals]]), or a missing parameter in a properly working template... In any case, the sortkey for the [[Category:Stub-Class Academic Journal articles]] is missing in the template used in [[Talk:American Economic Review]].

Not a MediaWiki bug, for all i know.

It's listed between Talk:The Accounting Review and Talk:The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, so it seems it is actually listed as Talk:The American Economic Review, which was the old title of this page before 30 January 2010, when it was moved.

I found a bug in my code that was causing the seeming mass additions and removals (not encoding '&' correctly in URL). This leaves the much less significant issue of why is the page incorrectly ordered.

sumanah wrote:

Svick, is this still happening? I can't connect to http://svick.aspweb.cz/CatWatch.aspx to check.

Like I said in the last comment, the main issue was a bug in my code. The issue with sorting could be something like stuck cache, so I'm marking this bug as resolved.

Luke081515 added a project: CatWatch.Feb 24 2016, 7:24 PM

Danny_B added a project: TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish).Jun 6 2016, 11:22 AM

Tobi_WMDE_SW moved this task from Incoming to CatWatch on the TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish) board.Nov 22 2016, 11:18 AM

thiemowmde removed a project: TCB-Team (now WMDE-TechWish).Jan 7 2022, 3:41 PM

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