Last modified: 2011-07-08 20:17:51 UTC
I run a tool (http://svick.aspweb.cz/CatWatch.aspx) that watches additions and removals of pages to categories. It seems that every few days, several hundred members of [[Category:Stub-Class Academic Journal articles]] are removed from the listing of the category and later again readded, while nothing changes on the actual member pages or the template used. Most recent incidents: 3.4.2010 21:36 1314 pages were removed 4.4.2010 10:22 1314 pages were added 6.4.2010 22:16 821 pages were removed Currently, for example [[Talk:American Economic Review]] isn't listed in the category, but the page itself shows that it is member of the category. The page itself hasn't changed for several months.
Actually it IS listed, but under T (for "T"alk:American Economic Review). I'd say it's either a poorly made template ([[Template:WikiProject Academic Journals]]), or a missing parameter in a properly working template... In any case, the sortkey for the [[Category:Stub-Class Academic Journal articles]] is missing in the template used in [[Talk:American Economic Review]]. Not a MediaWiki bug, for all i know.
It's listed between Talk:The Accounting Review and Talk:The American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, so it seems it is actually listed as Talk:The American Economic Review, which was the old title of this page before 30 January 2010, when it was moved.
I found a bug in my code that was causing the seeming mass additions and removals (not encoding '&' correctly in URL). This leaves the much less significant issue of why is the page incorrectly ordered.
Svick, is this still happening? I can't connect to http://svick.aspweb.cz/CatWatch.aspx to check.
Like I said in the last comment, the main issue was a bug in my code. The issue with sorting could be something like stuck cache, so I'm marking this bug as resolved.
