It would be very beneficial to wikinews projects if flagged revisions took categories into account. If someone adds a category to an article, the article should only be added to the category if the revision is sighted. If none of the revisions of that page are sighted, categories should still work in the normal way.
This is important for wikinews, since we use categories to determine which articles are 'published'. Removing the category publish causes the article to become de-published (a bad thing). Even worse, when the edit is reverted, it causes the article to become the most recently published article, as we use the cl_timestamp of category:publish to determine the publish date. This means a vandal can cause an old article to become the most recently published article, and there is nothing we can do to revert the damage. This causes a lot of head-aches.
Cheers,
bawolff
p.s. This is essentially almost a dupe of Bug 20243 (the non-dupe part being covered by Bug 16287 ) , but that bug is very unclear what exactly it is asking , so i thought i'd file a more direct request. Hope thats ok.
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Severity: enhancement