Last modified: 2010-05-15 16:03:40 UTC
I'm moving through the files in Category:NowCommons at german wikipedia in the order of categorization. to get an overview over the oldest files: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:NowCommons&cmsort=timestamp&cmdir=asc&cmlimit=10&cmprop=title&cmnamespace=6 the first file is obtained by http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:NowCommons&cmsort=timestamp&cmdir=asc&cmlimit=1&cmprop=title&cmnamespace=6, it is "Postmeilensaeule Zwoenitz.jpg". the cmcontinue token is "PMSOberwiesenthal 2.jpg|". therefore, http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:NowCommons&cmsort=timestamp&cmdir=asc&cmlimit=1&cmprop=title&cmnamespace=6&cmcontinue=PMSOberwiesenthal 2.jpg| should give the next file. Yet, it is the same result as the first query without cmcontinue.
The URL above doesn't work, but this one works (for me at least) to illustrate the problem: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:NowCommons&cmsort=timestamp&cmdir=asc&cmlimit=1&cmprop=title&cmnamespace=6&cmcontinue=PMSOberwiesenthal%202.jpg| The continue parameter returned is identical to the one used in the request.
Might be the same bug as described on <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2008-February/000365.html>.
Fixed in r33256.