Re: [Semediawiki-user] Bug in #ask?

[Markus K. <ma...@se...>]

On Donnerstag, 7. August 2008, Martin Weissman wrote:
> I am using an inline query:  {{#ask: [[Category:Definition]] |
> format=count }} in my wiki.  In this wiki, "Definition" is a
> subcategory of "Mathematical Knowledge".
>
> For some reason, this query is outputting the number "65", which is
> the number of members of the larger category "Mathematical Knowledge".
>  This is occurring for other subcategories of "Mathematical Knowledge"
> as well, and it is occurring for other formats as well (including
> format=ul).
>
> I believe that this is a bug.  The "Category:Definition" page is
> listing 41 items, as appropriate, so its elements are being counted
> correctly by the mediawiki software.
>
> Perhaps the query is counting elements of "supercategories" as well as
> subcategories?

SMW interprets categories as classes and sub-category memberships as class 
inclusion. Hence, all members of subcategories also are assumed to belong to 
the supercategory.



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