[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-1615700 ] "category.py move [-inplace]" ignores some instances

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Bugs item #1615700, was opened at 2006-12-14 14:03
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Submitted By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
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Summary: "category.py move [-inplace]" ignores some instances

Initial Comment:
I observed (very few) instances when the command:

python category.py ... move -inplace -from:... -to:...

did not catch all occurences of the -from category, so that ater the run it was not empty, since some pages belonging to it were not altered at all. I believe, replace.py did not find the category tag inside these pages.

I all such cases, the following was true, but I cannot tell, which of those (if any) is a trigger for replace.py's erroneous behaviour:

- "move -inplace" was used.
- the category tag was formatted like "[[namespace:pagename|sortkey]]", with a non-empty sort key present.
- the "[[namespace:" was 
  neither "[[Category:",
  nor the default local name for the wiki/language (as present in $namespaceNames),
  but another name which can be found only in the $namespaceAliases of the wiki language.

(My *guess* is the latter being the cause)

There may have been cases when category.py did find and correctly replaced the category tag in pages despite the conditions above, but I am not aware of any.

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Comment By: Tavernier (tavernier)
Date: 2008-01-27 05:48

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can you give links ? does the problem still occur ?

sometimes he don't catch the category because it's transcluded from a
template.

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Comment By: Russell Blau (russblau)
Date: 2007-11-21 16:13

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I have made many revisions to the "replaceCategoryInPlace()" function
since this bug was opened.  If there is still a problem, please identify
specific articles/sites that don't get moved correctly.  If not, this bug
can be closed.

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Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date: 2007-06-01 12:32

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The sort key seems of no importance.

Here you can see that there are three ways to write "Category" in the
Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages:
http://ksh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Betupper_%28Minsch%29&diff=prev&oldid=220947
- the list of categories below the page shows only one name, and there is
no wikilink of either at the end of the page.

I ran: 
python category.py move -inplace -from:Mynsch -to:Minsch

and it resonded:
Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including
the current process.
Getting [[Saachjrupp:Mynsch]]...
Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:ksh...
Getting a page to check if we're logged in on wikipedia:ksh
Sleeping for 5.6 seconds, 2007-06-01 10:05:04
Changing page [[ksh:Betupper (Minsch)]]
There are no subcategories in category Saachjrupp:Mynsch
Dumping to category.dump.bz2, please wait...

Here is the change made by the bot:
http://ksh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Betupper_%28Minsch%29&diff=next&oldid=220947

1. It got the generic english name (category:Mynsch altered to
Category:Minsch) and normalized it.
2. It got the default localized name (Saachjrupp:Mynsch) and normalized it
to the generic english one. The default localized form is defined in
$namespaceNames.
3. It did NOT catch the alternate localized name (Kategorie:Mynsch, left
unchanged). BUT as you can see from the box at the bottom of the page, the
page is now in two categories. I.e. Mediawiki understands the alternate
localized form. Several alternate localized names can be defined in
$namespaceAliases, see
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesKsh.php?view=markup

I believe, category.py does either not know of $namespaceAliases, or uses
only one of the alternate names listed there.

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Comment By: siebrand (siebrand)
Date: 2007-04-26 21:30

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Please let us know if this bug report is still applicable to the current
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now. This message was added in an effort to reduce the number of open
issues on this project. Siebrand

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Comment By: Cyde Weys (cydeweys)
Date: 2007-01-28 21:26

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Hrmm, I'm confused.  How many different ways are there to write
"Category:"?  I thought there was just one, whatever the language's wiki
uses.  Can you give a specific example of one that wasn't caught, but that
should have been?  Thanks.

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