如何在类别名称中转义冒号以供DPL使用？

Question

I have several categories in a mediawiki which have colons in the name. With DPL, when I try either

category=Foo:bar

or

linksto=Category:Foo:bar

I get no results, even though that category when viewed actually shows several hundred pages. I presume it is due to the colons in the category name. Is there some way to escape the colon in a way that makes DPL happy?

Answer 1

The only working solution seems to be to use the categorymatch argument, rather than the category argument, using the % wildcard in place of the colons.

So instead of

|category=Foo:bar

use

|categorymatch=Foo%bar

Answer 2

You should use colon before the category name, for example:

[[:Category:foo]]

And this will work!.