Semanticmediawiki: smw-category-invalid-redirect-target ?

[MvGulik]

I'm seeing this ...

"smw-category-invalid-redirect-target": "Category \"$1\" contains an invalid redirect target to a non-category namespace."

... error at the SMW "Processing error list" page.

I know what it is that I'm doing, that is triggering this error.

What I don't get is:

• Why is SMW seeing this as a problem ?
  and
• What SMW problem's might I encounter by doing this.

MW 1.31.0 with SMW 3.1.5 just in case it might matter.

[MvGulik]

Mmm ...

After running into the Help:Inferencing page.
And reading the next part.

Redirects between two different namespaces, such as redirects from normal pages to properties, properties to categories, etc. are not supported in a special semantic way. They still create normal MediaWiki redirect pages but nothing else.

It feels to me its more a warning than a error. in that:

• SMW seems to assume it must have been a none intended redirect usage on the user.
  and
• The related redirect target will be ignored as such by SMW. Or, there will be no unexpected SMW side effects.

Seems I might have just answered my own question.
(_presuming I answered it correctly. Time will tell, or not of course._)

[kghbln]

Seems I might have just answered my own question.

I believe you did. It is a warning preventing you from having false expectations.

[MvGulik]

Like to add to this that I think that "warnings" should not be presented under a "error" header.
And that it would be nice is there was some way to make SMW bypass/ignore them (_if there is I have not fount it yet of course_). (_in my case I got a lot of those warnings, and there effectively bloating the error list so that other real(kinda) errors are overshadowed_)

[MvGulik]

Seems I was a bit premature on the "_no unexpected SMW side effects_".

Seems I somehow managed to trow SMW of balance. (_while adding such a non-category redirect from a category_)

Some related #ask: call first went from 80+ items to zero.
And although, after some debug edits, it started to showing some items again (_those included in some other related category_).
It still refused to pick up the rest of those 80+ items.

Seems I have to hit refresh on those other 70+ pages. :-(
(_ok ... API sandbox made it a bit less of a headache_)

[MvGulik]

Confirming: A SMW category-ask will not return any data if that category has a non-category redirect from that category.

:-(