https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20378
Summary: Have a method in the api to modify categoryadd
timestamps
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.13-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
The DPL (aka intersection) extension that wikinews uses, uses the categoryadd
timestamp to order articles, which for the most part works great. However on
rare occasions the categoryadd timestamp can get reset (See related bug 20243
and bug 16287). Most commonly this is as a result of page blanking vandalism,
or changing the sortkey of a category. This causes problems for us (for
example: article from 2 years ago being listed as most recent published = bad
thing).
I'd like to make a feature request that the api have some method of changing
the categoryadd timestamps. Something like:
api.php?action=resetcategoryadd&title=Article_Name&category=Category:Category_Name&setdate=new_date
Assuming that the person was an admin, and that the article in question had a
pre-existing link to the category in question, that would set the categoryadd
timestamp for the category in question to the date specified. Thus in the rare
case when a categoryadd date gets reset, we would have some method of fixing
it.
Thanks,
Bawolff
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