Topic on Extension talk:MsCatSelect

NOTE: This extension at the time of writing will cause used within SMW semantic search to be removed from your query as it will be considered a declaration of the page category rather than a condition. I am sure this will be fixed.

fixed?

Still not fixed, but you can patch the extension to make it work with #ask:

In the file MsCatSelect.php modify the pattern declaration (line 74)

replace

$pattern = "\[\[({$categoryNamespace}):([^\|\]]*)(\|[^\|\]]*)?\]\]";

with

$pattern = "(?<!#ask:)\[\[({$categoryNamespace}):([^\|\]]*)(\|[^\|\]]*)?\]\]";

This way the extension skips all category patterns directly preceded with #ask: