[Mediawiki-api] new bug in category members query?

[Carl Beckhorn]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:44:04AM +0100, Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
> On 2/18/08, Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 07:43:53PM +0100, Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
> > > Fixed in r31034.
> >
> > Will this also fix the problem that sometimes not all pages in the
> > category are returned? The sooner that can be fixed and synced, the
> > better.
> >
> > To test the problem, try to download a list of all pages in a big
> > category, like [[Category:Stub-Class mathematics articles]], with
> > cmlimit set to a small number, like 5.  Right now I get 44 pages
> > that way, including numerous duplicates, before the API stops
> > providing a cmcontinue token.

> No, it does not, unless that bug was accidentily caused by this same
> bug. I'll take a look once the Wikimedia servers have been
> synchronized.

Special:Version seems to say that r31034 is live. I checked today, and
the bug still shows up, but only if cmsort is set to timestamp. In 
other words, the code will work with cmsort set to sortkey, but 
when cmsort is changed to timestamp, the same will only return a 
few results.

 - Carl