From 206d3954f591e424b3be80f87debd07b91287f02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:13:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [wikimedia:wiki] fix "AttributeError: 'subcategories'"
 (#7931)

---
 gallery_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py b/gallery_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py
index e927bc1a..00266bd0 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/extractor/wikimedia.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ class WikimediaExtractor(BaseExtractor):
                 f"{self.root.partition('.')[0].rpartition('/')[2]}")
 
         self.per_page = self.config("limit", 50)
+        self.subcategories = False
 
         if useragent := self.config_instance("useragent"):
             self.useragent = useragent
@@ -217,8 +218,8 @@ class WikimediaArticleExtractor(WikimediaExtractor):
             self.subcategory = prefix
 
         if prefix == "category":
-            self.subcategories = \
-                True if self.config("subcategories", True) else False
+            if self.config("subcategories", True):
+                self.subcategories = True
             self.params = {
                 "generator": "categorymembers",
                 "gcmtitle" : path,
@@ -226,12 +227,10 @@ class WikimediaArticleExtractor(WikimediaExtractor):
                 "gcmlimit" : self.per_page,
             }
         elif prefix == "file":
-            self.subcategories = False
             self.params = {
                 "titles"   : path,
             }
         else:
-            self.subcategories = False
             self.params = {
                 "generator": "images",
                 "gimlimit" : self.per_page,