Author: brian.mcneil
Description:
English Wikinews employs the following DPL on the main page to list recent news stories:
<nowiki>
<DynamicPageList>
category=published notcategory=No publish notcategory=Archived notcategory=AutoArchived stablepages=only count=20 addfirstcategorydate=true ordermethod=categoryadd namespace=0 suppresserrors=true showcurid=true
</DynamicPageList>
</nowiki>
This should list, in order of publication, the most recent 20 published articles that have been sighted with FlaggedRevisions.
This fails in some unpredictable ways, with articles published several days ago suddenly appearing nearer the top of the list and attributed to the incorrect date.
There are two suspected causes of this:
- Renaming an article resets when it was added to the Published category.
- Edits by users who cannot sight an article to remove the article from the Published article impact when the article is recorded as being in the published category. Example, they remove the {{publish}} template, thus creating an unsighted revision, their change is reverted and the new version is sighted. However, DPL appears to see the version without {{publish}} despite the 'stablepages=only' qualifier that should make it ignore all unreviewed versions.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler#Articles_appearing_under_wrong_dates_on_main_page