From d4e2c55cfc651862244d5eb167c769a47c819a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Monk <krenair@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:10:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Get rid of Category: prefix when looking up categories from
 the API

Bug: T103777
Change-Id: I27a81d832e3da7a0177d1c69af605c0525415b6b
---
 modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWCategoryInputWidget.js | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWCategoryInputWidget.js b/modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWCategoryInputWidget.js
index 5eee3d94bd..8c11604989 100644
--- a/modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWCategoryInputWidget.js
+++ b/modules/ve-mw/ui/widgets/ve.ui.MWCategoryInputWidget.js
@@ -56,11 +56,17 @@ OO.mixinClass( ve.ui.MWCategoryInputWidget, OO.ui.mixin.LookupElement );
  * @inheritdoc
  */
 ve.ui.MWCategoryInputWidget.prototype.getLookupRequest = function () {
+	var title = mw.Title.newFromText( this.value );
+	if ( title && title.getNamespaceId() === mw.config.get( 'wgNamespaceIds' ).category ) {
+		title = title.getMainText();
+	} else {
+		title = this.value;
+	}
 	return new mw.Api().get( {
 		action: 'query',
 		generator: 'allcategories',
 		gacmin: 1,
-		gacprefix: this.value,
+		gacprefix: title,
 		prop: 'categoryinfo',
 		redirects: ''
 	} );