Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-126761-20150625165159/@comment-23865-20150707160717

Mrkermit wrote: But if I understood correctly, the Company has promised that flags would still populate the categories like templates. However, I saw that there have been some problems with test wikias but if some of proposed merges will show up in the categories and rest in the Insights, it would still only be poorer admin experience and would not affect to the regular users.

Hey! We did indeed have a bit of a problem with showing pages on Categories and on Special:Whatlinkshere at first. Both problems are now resolved and we've tested the heck out of this.

Works as intended, that is to say:

If your flag template has a category in it, that category will be correctly applied to any flagged page (i.e. any page that you add the flag to).

This makes flag mimic the way normal templates work, which is what we aimed for.

As an aside, coding is pretty similar to writing a wiki in that you do have to occasionally circle back and correct what you wrote. And that's what we did here. ;)

Also, while I'm here, I'll mention that we are currently working on upgrading Special:Flags to allow for defining (adding) and removing flags by admins. That update will be out in about 2-3 weeks from now – hope that alleviates your doubts around us having to be involved, resulting in long wait times. Do-it-yourself is where we want to be with this feature really soon. :)