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page.Category.articles: Fix the equivalant of startFrom in core

The way `startFrom` works in compat is equal to `startprefix` in core.[1]
`startsort`, which is deprecated in MW 1.24, needs to be a binary string,[2]
otherwise the user will get the wrong results because of the wrong start.

This means that compat's `startFrom` has no equivalant in core if the
MediaWiki version is less than 1.18.

[1]:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/PWBO/browse/master/catlib.py;dfd2f011fa9614e2131743e761f1dbafe7f2f1a0$327
[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers

Change-Id: I10620e82d2d0792579889199ffa5e94a0cce0d07
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M pywikibot/page.py
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pywikibot/page.py b/pywikibot/page.py
index 97c6681..93d5f40 100644
--- a/pywikibot/page.py
+++ b/pywikibot/page.py
@@ -2798,7 +2798,7 @@
                             if total == 0:
                                 return
 
-    @deprecated_args(startFrom='startsort', step=None)
+    @deprecated_args(startFrom='startprefix', step=None)
     def articles(self, recurse=False, total=None,
                  content=False, namespaces=None, sortby=None,
                  reverse=False, starttime=None, endtime=None,

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