On 07/05/07, Rolf Lampa <rolf.lampa(a)rilnet.com> wrote:
When doing "systematical" work with
categories one would sometimes like
to refresh the entire database after changes in templates etc. But, the
categories won't "release" old category markup unless touching the
articles. Now, updating ALL links flr several hundred thousand articles,
or more, isn't always desired.
Links due to templates will, in all recent versions of MediaWiki, be
updated as the job queue is executed. To run through all jobs, use the
maintenance/runJobs.php script.
It's not possible to write a script which only updates the category
link tables and expect it to run any faster, because a brute-force
link table update is needed; we don't know what pages link to
categories, so we have to parse and check them all.
Rob Church