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Mentor's Talk page gets added to the mainspace category when a mentee's question header refers to a Category
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Yesterday, a new mentee's question (diff) resulted in my User Talk page becoming an entry in the Languages of Nigeria category.

If I had not looked at the category and realised this, the impact would have been to leave ongoing litter in the category..

I suggest that when generating the Question from <mentee> on <topic> (<time date>) heading, the <topic> should be parsed and the "[[" + "]]" omitted if it commences with "Category:" as that text is consequential for mainspace.

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tests: E2E coverage for question posting on colon-prefixed namespacesUrbanecmmediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperimentsmaster+100 -0
fix(QuestionPoster): Treat questions asked on categories correctlyUrbanecmmediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperimentsmaster+2 -2
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AllyD created this task.Nov 25 2025, 7:49 AM
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AllyD added a project: GrowthExperiments-Mentorship.Nov 25 2025, 7:49 AM
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Etonkovidova moved this task from Inbox to Needs Discussion on the Growth-Team board.Nov 26 2025, 11:08 PM
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Confirmed on testwiki wmf.4 - below are the steps to reproduce the issue

  • on testwiki go to Category:Plant page and click Edit
  • click to expand Help panel and post a question to your tutor
  • after posting your question, go to your mentor's User talk page and see that the page is added to Category:Plant

Additional issues:

  • The question header doesn't include the title of the page (the check box "Include page title with my question Category:Plant" was checked

Screenshot 2025-11-26 at 6.03.00 PM.png (2,026×408 px, 77 KB)

  • the mentor's user talk page is included into Category:Plant - https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Plant
  • the source editor displays the page title == Question from [[User:Zilant17|Zilant17]] on [[Category:Plant]] (23:02, 26 November 2025) ==
DMburugu moved this task from Needs Discussion to Triaged on the Growth-Team board.Jul 8 2026, 1:49 PM
Urbanecm_WMF subscribed.Jul 8 2026, 5:19 PM

I fixed this a long time ago (T289932)... Why did it come back?

Urbanecm_WMF added a comment.Jul 8 2026, 5:29 PM

xref T355470: Help panel question from categories displayed incorrectly as well

gerritbot added a comment.Jul 8 2026, 5:39 PM

Change #1308693 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] fix(QuestionPoster): Treat questions asked on categories correctly

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1308693

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jul 8 2026, 5:39 PM

Change #1308694 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] tests: E2E coverage for question posting on colon-prefixed namespaces

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1308694

Urbanecm_WMF added a comment.Jul 8 2026, 5:40 PM
In T410982#12101302, @Urbanecm_WMF wrote:

I fixed this a long time ago (T289932)... Why did it come back?

It didn't. It is a different bug (help desk questions vs mentorship questions). Fixed the latter one and actually wrote some tests for it.

Urbanecm_WMF claimed this task.Jul 8 2026, 5:40 PM
Urbanecm_WMF triaged this task as Low priority.
Urbanecm_WMF edited projects, added: Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 1); removed: Growth-Team.

Moving to sprint, as this was a very straightforward thing.

Urbanecm_WMF moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 1) board.Jul 8 2026, 5:40 PM
Urbanecm_WMF set the point value for this task to 0.5.Jul 8 2026, 5:45 PM
Urbanecm_WMF changed the point value for this task from 0.5 to 1.Thu, Jul 9, 8:17 AM
gerritbot added a comment.Fri, Jul 10, 2:05 PM

Change #1308693 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] fix(QuestionPoster): Treat questions asked on categories correctly

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1308693

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.11; 2026-07-14).Fri, Jul 10, 3:00 PM
EMcFarland-WMF moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Growth-Team (FY2026-27 Q1 Sprint 1) board.Mon, Jul 13, 9:54 AM
DMburugu closed this task as Resolved.Tue, Jul 14, 10:46 AM
DMburugu subscribed.

The main patch appears to have resolved the issue. Issues can be filled in a follow up task

gerritbot added a comment.Thu, Jul 16, 4:23 PM

Change #1308694 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] tests: E2E coverage for question posting on colon-prefixed namespaces

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1308694

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Thu, Jul 16, 4:31 PM
ReleaseTaggerBot edited projects, added: MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.12; 2026-07-21); removed: MW-1.47-notes (1.47.0-wmf.11; 2026-07-14).Thu, Jul 16, 5:00 PM
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