Workflow not available on Category pages despite namespace being configured

Bugs
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Not sure if this is a bug or a missing feature, but here’s what’s happening:

When setting up a workflow trigger on Special:Workflow_triggers, the Category namespace shows up as an option in the namespace conditions and can be selected. However, when you actually navigate to a category page, the workflow does not appear in the page tools/actions menu.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to Special:Workflow_triggers
  2. Edit or create a trigger
  3. Under Conditions, add the “Category” namespace
  4. Save the trigger
  5. Navigate to any category page (e.g. Category:Foo)
  6. Check the page actions/tools for the workflow

Expected behavior:
The workflow should be available to start on category pages, since the Category namespace is explicitly listed as an allowed namespace in the trigger conditions.

Actual behavior:
The workflow does not appear on category pages at all, even though the namespace was selected.

Why this seems like a bug:
The UI lets you select the Category namespace as a condition, which implies it should work. i also don’t see why it wouldn’t work

2

Hi YvarRavy,

the workflow feature is only available for content namespaces. By default, the category namespace is not defined as content namespace. You can go to the NamespaceManager to mark it as a content namespace.

Also, sometimes a category might be a “wanted category” - that is, although the url shows the pages that are tagged with that category, the actual category page has never been created. A worklow cannot run on a page that does not exist. A notice at the beginning of the page states: “There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, search the related logs, or create this page.”

Greetings,

Margit