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

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;dfd... [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers

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

Approvals: Zhuyifei1999: Looks good to me, but someone else must approve Xqt: Looks good to me, approved jenkins-bot: Verified

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,