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Is there a minimum name length for categories?

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Summary by AhmadF.Cheema

Apparently, no. Unfinished jobs was the issue preventing categories from updating.

Ehtech2000 (talkcontribs)

The Issue

Hi there,

I created a category "KB" and assigned three pages to it, but no matter what I do to try and refresh it (short of clearing cache because I don't want to have to re-log-in to all my open online accounts and then wait for images to download and cache again), the category consistently says:

This category currently contains no pages or media.

But, other categories work perfectly fine. I'm wondering if the reason it is not showing the associated pages might be because there is a minimum category name length of "three characters" -- but, I can't find anywhere where it says that, to confirm my suspicion. Neither this page Help:Categories, nor a Google search answered my questions.

My Questions

  1. Is the minimum category name length greater than one, and if so, what is it AND where is it documented?
  2. Is minimum name length something that would cause the error message above?

Any help is appreciated.

AhmadF.Cheema (talkcontribs)

Are other categories working correctly? If not, this is probably a jobs related issue. See Topic:T6uzpn51mgb8n5sc.

Ehtech2000 (talkcontribs)

That was the answer! I figured out what caused the issue with the categories not refreshing. I'm trying to mimick infoboxes on my local personal wiki and so I've had to import many XML templates exported from Wikipedia just to get the wikipedia:Brian May infobox (musical artist) to work. Based on what I'm reading, all the imports must have moved pointers and messed up references in the MySQL tables. Anyway, I ran the RunJobs.php script, refreshed my page and now all the categories work like a charm.

Ehtech2000 (talkcontribs)
:Thanks AhmadF.Cheema. Most categories are working, however I've had this 'no pages' issue on other categories during the past three weeks since I installed my brand-new wiki on localhost in Windows. I will need to review the link you pr, but the RunJobs.phpbshpp' script looks promising. I'll report back.
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