https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22936
Summary: Job queue issues with categories
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Normal
Component: Categories
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: hart...@videolan.org
There have been some issues with old categories lately. For instance
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Skiing_stubs was deprecated
and it took over a month before all articles were removed. I'm pretty sure the
last ones were actually null edited to force the category to become empty.
There are also some vandalism categories such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:You_are_gay_and_so_if_you_fucking_mother-Class_physics_articles
that kept having articles in them. Natalie fixed this as well by using
nulledits. Still nulledits should not be required to purge old categories. It
seems there is an issue in the jobqueue that caused these jobs to stall.
It might be that this was related to the problems with the lists of Special
pages not updating. If that is the case it might be that the issue should now
no longer occur, but that the categories simply didn't properly land on the
jobqueue during the presence of the bug. This is speculation however.
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