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Bug 15968 - Articles in wrong categories
Articles in wrong categories
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Semantic MediaWiki (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal major (vote)
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Assigned To: Markus Krötzsch
http://www.allamps.com
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Reported: 2008-10-13 16:36 UTC by Simon Vez
Modified: 2008-11-19 15:55 UTC (History)
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Description Simon Vez 2008-10-13 16:36:24 UTC
Hi,

I am deploying a Semantic Mediawiki site here at http://www.allamps.com. (A wiki about guitar amplifiers.)

I am having the following wierd bug.. Articles sometimes appear in the wrong categories.  

Here is how the site is built: All of the amplifier pages are categorized depending on what the "Manufacturer" is.  The Manufacturer is a field in a Form that the user has to fill. Then, I just call [[Category:{{{Manufacturer}}}]] in the template.

Here are the template and form:
Template: http://www.allamps.com/wiki/Template:GuitarAmplifierInfoBox
Form: http://www.allamps.com/wiki/Form:GuitarAmplifierInfoBox

Example:
If I edit a Fender amplifier using the form, it will go to the correct category. But then, if I go and edit an Ampeg amplifier, the Fender one might no longer appear in the Fender category. It's very wierd, and I didn't find the pattern of the problem.
http://www.allamps.com/wiki/Category:Fender
http://www.allamps.com/wiki/Category:Ampeg

When I look at the problematic articles, they do have the correct category at the bottom of the page. But they just don't appear in the category.

I tried disabling every extension on my site, and it did the same thing.

Other symptoms:
-Sometimes, the Fender category will suddenly have a Fender subcategory.
-Sometimes, another category will appear as a Subcategory of another, even though they are not supposed to.


Do these sympoms ring a bell to anyone?
Simon
Comment 1 Markus Krötzsch 2008-10-14 07:43:36 UTC
There was a known problem in SMW that could cause data to be misdirected when certain other extensions/jobs were running in unfortunate constellations. Which version of SMW do you use? Trying to call your Special:Version page gives me an error, possibly by some broken extension.
Comment 2 Markus Krötzsch 2008-11-19 15:55:25 UTC
SMW 1.4 is close to release. The SVN version can be tested and should work with Semantic Forms SVN as well. SMW 1.4 also includes a new feature to "repair" all data using Special:SMWAdmin. This should be used to fix any miscategorised pages.

I assume that this bug has been fixed by the changes in SMW 1.4.

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