On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 07:50:43PM -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
Lacking such intuition, is there any better mechanism in the API other than an exhaustive search through the category tree?
No. Note that enwiki has many *un*intuitive category chains as well. For example, you might not expect [[Death Valley]] to be in [[:Category:Bodies of water]], but it is: * [[Death Valley]] is in [[:Category:Death Valley National Park]] * ... which is in [[:Category:Northern Mojave-Mono Lake region]] * ... which is in [[:Category:Watersheds of California]] * ... which is in [[:Category:Watersheds of the United States]] * ... which is in [[:Category:Watersheds]] * ... which is in [[:Category:Rivers]] * ... which is in [[:Category:Bodies of water]]