[Mediawiki-api] Breaking change: cmnamespace parameter disabled

Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipedia at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 19:43:57 UTC 2009


The 'cmnamespace' parameter to the 'categorymembers' query has been
disabled in miser mode, which has the effect of disabling it on WMF
wikis. The parameter is simply ignored, causing category lists to
include pages in all namespaces. The simplest workaround is to filter
category lists locally.

References:
* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/53052
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19640

- Carl



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