On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:49 PM, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Requesting api.php?action=purge&titles=page_name&forcelinkupdate updates categories. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -Liangent _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
