Is it possible to force MediaWiki update a certain Category:XXX page? For example, a lot of pages used templates that referred a category Templates causing every such page to be included to the Template category. That's obviously wrong. I have already fixed the templates by wrapping the Templates category into the noinclude tag, so now every page that use these templates are no longer categorized as Templates. That's fine.Article source:    {{stub}}Template source BEFORE the fix:    This page is a stub    [[Category:Templates]]Rendered article BEFORE the fix:    This page is a stub    Categories: Templates | StubsCategory Templates BEFORE the fix:    Article    Template:StubTemplate source AFTER the fix:    This page is a stub    <noinclude>[[Category:Templates]]</noinclude>Rendered article AFTER the fix:    This page is a stub    Categories: StubsCategory Templates AFTER the fix:    Article <--- this is wrong    Template:StubBut the list in the Category:Template seems to be frozen for really long time. I do remember that I had a similar case a half year ago, and I clearly watched the number of pages decreased slowly, but constantly. Now it got stuck. Is any categorization update status page available? (I'm almost sure that I remember someone told me it's performed by a background job) Or what am I doing wrong?MediaWiki: 1.23.6PHP: 5.4.38Thanks in advance.UPDATE: See here for more information in addition to the best answer here.
MediaWiki: How do I force MediaWiki to update a certain Category:XXX page?
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I have two suggestions to try:PurgeIt looks like the update is showing on the article but not the category page, so a simple purge may do the trick.To do that, pass the action=purge parameter to the category URL. (An easy way is to click the edit link to open the edit window, and replace action=edit with action=purge in the URL.)Null editIf the article is not updating after changing the template, your problem is the job queue, which can take a while to filter through, depending on load. On a case-by-case basis, performing a null edit on the article should solve your problem. From Meta-Wiki:The most useful side-effect of a null edit is that it updates category pages, taking into account categories transcluded via templates. If a category has been added to or removed from a template since it was last transcluded on a page, then purging the cache will not update the category contents, but a null edit to the page (not the category) will  see Help:Category#Adding a category by using a template.To do that, edit the article in question but make no changes. If you save the page, it will look like nothing happened (nothing is recorded in the page history or your contributions list), but that bypasses the job queue and forces the page to update based on the new version of the template.