Last modified: 2008-08-16 21:21:55 UTC
This feature request has three logically related facets: 1) Hidden categories marked as __HIDDENCAT__ should be marked as hidden in some way, e.g. <cl ns="14" title="Category:Move protected" hidden=""/>. Sample query is the URL for this bug. The current way of determining this is to get the text of the category page or through list=allcategories (either way, a cumbersome second query) because... 2) ... prop=categoryinfo doesn't mention hidden status either (sample query: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categoryinfo&titles=Category:Move+protected). 3) There should be an option to show/hide hidden categories on prop=categories, e.g. clshow={nothidden,hidden,both}. The current behaviour is both, hidden would return only hidden cats and nothidden only non-hidden cats.
(In reply to comment #0) > This feature request has three logically related facets: > > 1) Hidden categories marked as __HIDDENCAT__ should be marked as hidden in some > way, e.g. <cl ns="14" title="Category:Move protected" hidden=""/>. Sample query > is the URL for this bug. The current way of determining this is to get the text > of the category page or through list=allcategories (either way, a cumbersome > second query) because... prop=categories doesn't mention hidden status, but it doesn't need to, because... > 2) ... prop=categoryinfo doesn't mention hidden status either (sample query: > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categoryinfo&titles=Category:Move+protected). ...once bug 15191 is fixed, this will work, and you can use generator=categories&prop=categoryinfo > > 3) There should be an option to show/hide hidden categories on prop=categories, > e.g. clshow={nothidden,hidden,both}. The current behaviour is both, hidden > would return only hidden cats and nothidden only non-hidden cats. That's the only remaining issue for this bug. It was fixed in r39504 (of course that won't work either until bug 15191 is fixed).
