Negative membership counts in category table
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	Jul 18 2014, 10:10 PM

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Author: wolfram.schmied

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List of offending table entries

I noticed that the July dump of en.Wikipedia's category table contains sixty entries with negative numbers in the cat_pages field. More info to be had here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&oldid=617506055#Negative_category_membership_counts

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Mentioned In: T85696: Allow action=purge to recalculate the number of pages/subcats/files in a category

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:29 AM

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• bzimport created this task.Jul 18 2014, 10:10 PM

Consider the category table to be only a very rough measure.

If the category has < 200 members, the category table entry will get updated on next visit to the category.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16036 ***

Taylor mentioned this in T85696: Allow action=purge to recalculate the number of pages/subcats/files in a category.May 22 2021, 5:43 PM

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