Thread:Project:Support desk/is the current page in a special category?/reply (6)

That does not answer the question. :-) Let me rephrase: At which point are parser conditions evaluated? Or is there not one certain point, at which this happens?

Somewhere else in the rendering process MediaWiki parses the page for categories, in which the page is. When is this point? Before or after the other one? If it was after the parser condition check, parser conditions could easily put a page in a category. And also if it was before I would not say it must directly be completely impossible to later add a cat anyway. (In fact there also are several hooks, which amongst other things allow you to put a page inside a category - and this also in the case that the page itself does not contain a reference to this category).