So if I start at Category:Articles and recurse "downward" into all category members, will it include all pages that are not administration pages? Or do I have to also recurse "upward", keeping in mind that it's a directed graph and not a tree?
Thanks, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Federico Leva (Nemo) [mailto:nemow...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 1:17 PM To: Robert Crowe Cc: xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Xmldatadumps-l] Housekeeping categories? Robert Crowe, 23/02/2013 21:58: > I tried finding all the subcategories of Category:Wikipedia_administration, > but unfortunately that includes many non-administration categories also. > > Will administration categories be limited to those that contain only: > > - Categories > - Files > - Talk pages > > Or are there other defining characteristics? There are. I doubt there's a precise definition, though. > Or are administration categories simply any category that is not a descendent > of Category:Articles? In theory, yes. But the category tree is not even a tree, so all sorts of things can happen... Nemo _______________________________________________ Xmldatadumps-l mailing list Xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/xmldatadumps-l
