I was thinking about it but touch.py is just an empty edit used to trigger the update of
database tables. An actual edit of adding a category should have the same effect. But I
went further by trying to purge couple pages and then checking if they are detected by
CatScan but no such luck.
Jarek
(user:Jarekt)
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Subject: Re: [Commons-l] Database transclusion table inconsistent with the file metadata
Hello Jarek,
Le mardi 10 février 2015, 14:08:43 Tuszynski, Jarek W. a écrit :
Lately I was searching the Commons files for files without Information
template or other maintained infobox templates mentioned in
Commons:Infoboxes and adding them to
Category:Media_missing_infobox_template<https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/ Category:Media_missing_infobox_template> [2]
Lately I had a large number of "false
positive" files that according
to the CatScan do not transclude {{Information}}, but which clearly
have the template. That seems to happen occasionally but usually edit
required to add the category is enough for the database to refresh
it's links and a second CatScan query like [5] can find them. However
this time it does not work.
Any idea how to purge such files? See also [6]
I'm not sure if this addresses the core of your question, but one solution could be to
generate the list as you currently do, purge the file pages using touch.py or similar,
then re-generate the list and see which titles still appear.
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Guillaume Paumier
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