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I've been testing my submission of articles from external sources using the Perl bot I wrote. Right now I have two primary sources, both of which have roughly 1000 articles that are generated from them. During article generation the articles are added to various categories (a "bottom" level category and one or more "parent" categories) depending on what categories it is decided they should show up in. I've also generated category page stubs for each category that specifies the category's parent categories (one or more parents per category and each parent may have one or more parents, all the way up to a top level wiki-wide category).
I've finished uploading one set of entries to my test wiki (the category pages were uploaded first) and am in the middle of uploading the second set. While browsing the category pages, I noticed that the subcategories for a particular category don't always show up on the category page when there are more than 200 articles in the category.
Specifically, in a category of roughly 1000 entries, all of which show up in that category (200 at a time), the subcategories do not show up on the first page of articles listed, they appear on the second page, and then they disappear again on all the subsequent pages of articles. The categories are correctly specified in the category page source.
Is this a known issue with a fix available?
John Blumel
John Blumel (johnblumel@earthlink.net) [050427 06:36]:
I've finished uploading one set of entries to my test wiki (the category pages were uploaded first) and am in the middle of uploading the second set. While browsing the category pages, I noticed that the subcategories for a particular category don't always show up on the category page when there are more than 200 articles in the category. Specifically, in a category of roughly 1000 entries, all of which show up in that category (200 at a time), the subcategories do not show up on the first page of articles listed, they appear on the second page, and then they disappear again on all the subsequent pages of articles. The categories are correctly specified in the category page source. Is this a known issue with a fix available?
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212
Though you might want to add that aspect of it - that it completely fails to show subcats on the first page if they're not in the alphabetisation range of the articles - as that's a somewhat more severe problem than as stated in the bug.
- d.
On Apr 26, 2005, at 7:59pm, David Gerard wrote:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212Though you might want to add that aspect of it - that it completely fails to show subcats on the first page if they're not in the alphabetisation range of the articles - as that's a somewhat more severe problem than as stated in the bug.
It hadn't actually occurred to me but that is exactly what it is doing -- not showing "subcats on the first page if they're not in the alphabetisation range of the articles". It seems a bit different from bug#1212, so perhaps I should add it as a separate bug.
John Blumel
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