From 06a02982f73c80c980a6d95c3bb4ca6e6ae83c33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brion Vibber <brion@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:20:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] if we get a bad cat, spit a warning and *continue* processing
 the rest of the wiki :)

---
 maintenance/populateCategory.inc | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/maintenance/populateCategory.inc b/maintenance/populateCategory.inc
index 8acdaf5b52..3b006fef5f 100644
--- a/maintenance/populateCategory.inc
+++ b/maintenance/populateCategory.inc
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ function populateCategory( $begin, $maxlag, $throttle, $force ) {
 		# Use the row to update the category count
 		$cat = Category::newFromName( $name );
 		if( !is_object( $cat ) ) {
-			var_dump( $cat );
-			throw new MWException( "The category named $name is not valid?!" );
+			echo "The category named $name is not valid?!\n";
+		} else {
+			$cat->refreshCounts();
 		}
-		$cat->refreshCounts();
 
 		++$i;
 		if( !($i % REPORTING_INTERVAL) ) {
-- 
2.20.1