When something goes wrong, such as the current behavior where "Category:+" should act as a wild card but instead acts as a nonexistent category (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29900), the query returns all pages in the wiki, which is not only unuseful, but also likely to be confusing and more of a problem than simply displaying nothing when nothing is found. Instead, nothing should be returned if there is nothing that matches the query.
See also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29891#c2
...the reason that [[Category:+]] does not work is simply that it is
ambiguous with SMW's way of searching for pages in the category called "+".
Since this is not a valid page, the query ends up having no conditions and all
pages are returned.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal