On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:08:31AM -0400, Russell Blau wrote:
Karl Ostmo wrote:
&list=allpages&apnamespace=14&apprefix=Rept
although I'm still curious why the missing
pages are in the
allcategories search.
Non-existent pages ''can'' be returned by list=allcategories
''if'' there
are pages filed in a redlinked category. But that doesn't seem to be the
case here, so I am as mystified as you.
It's actually "if there were ever pages in the category"; it's the
way MediaWiki's "category" table works, according to the code comments
in maintenance/tables.sql:
--
-- Track all existing categories. Something is a category if 1) it has an en-
-- try somewhere in categorylinks, or 2) it once did. Categories might not
-- have corresponding pages, so they need to be tracked separately.
--