Hi folks,

I created categories in huwiki for pages with broken file links as written on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33413#c12 That was 5 days ago: https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Broken-file-category&am...

The old category is still not divided into the new categories! I tried to wait a few hours, a few days, purge articles and categories several times, but without any result. http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateg%C3%B3ria:Hib%C3%A1s_f%C3%A1jlhivatkoz%C3%... still 1258 members from various namespaces after 5 days. Only approx. 100 pages have leaked into new categories one by one, very slowly. For example, it has http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algoritmus. Clicking to this article it shows category Hibás fájlhivatkozásokat tartalmazó szócikkekhttp://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateg%C3%B3ria:Hib%C3%A1s_f%C3%A1jlhivatkoz%C3%A1sokat_tartalmaz%C3%B3_sz%C3%B3cikkekas expected (hidden category!), but opening this category you won"t see this article in it. And so on.

How is that possible?

-- Bináris

Hi.

Basically the category will only change the next time the page has a linksupdate. This can happen in the following ways: *Someone edits a page *Someone does a null edit (not a purge) of the page. [aka Open page, change nothing, hit save] *Someone edits a template used on the page.

In particular, doing ?action=purge does *not* update the categories that are used on a page.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28876 is a bug for making the category change happen quickly. Its on my list of bugs that I think would be nice if they were fixed.

Cheers, Bawolff