The categories in
Category:Authority_control_maintenance<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wik…
are used to help with transition of
Template:Authority_control<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:A…
identifiers from Commons to Wikidata, so that Authority control template does not have to
keep and maintain all the identifiers but only a link to Wikidata where they are held and
shared among all the projects. The categories there depend on comparison of Commons
identifiers with wikidata ones. However I run into a curious problem where some pages are
in some category, but that categore does not list them. For example
Creator:Titus_Livius<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creator:Titus_Li… lists
that it belong to
Category:Pages_using_authority_control_with_all_identifiers_matching_Wikida…
but that category does not lists it as one of the pages that is part of it. Other pages
like that are:
Creator:Alonzo_Rodriguez<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creator:Alon…
or
Creator:Perrin_Remiet<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creator:Perrin_…
.
The only solution to the problem I found is to do an edit to the creator page, or run
Pywikibot/touch.py<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/touch… if I
had a list of files that need it. I guess some kind of event is needed to trigger page
refresh and with activation of wikidata arbitrary access, we run into a problem that the
event is happening on Wikidata and does not trigger the refresh on Commons. Page Purge
does not seem to help. In the meantime I think I have about 100 pages in such a limbo
state, but I have no way of finding them, other than running "touch" on large
number of pages.
Any ideas what to do? Is that a bug that should be reported, or new norm. Does Wikipedia
and other projects that used wikidata for a while run into it?
Jarek T.
(user:Jarekt)