On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. JAROSLAW.W.TUSZYNSKI@leidos.com wrote:
I lately switched Commons coordinate template https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Location from using dozens of subtemplates to much cleaner Lua code. Everything works great, except for Special:WhatLinksHere links. The no longer used subtemplates like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Location/layout still show over 3M files transcluding it and files, like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Estadio_Pacaembu.jpg which still claims to transclude [[Template:Location/layout]] ("Templates used on this page:" section in edit mode). The transclusion dependencies do not correct themselves even with a Purge, but page edit fixes it. Also several times I got some sort of internal database errors when using Special:WhatLinksHere.
In the past when I run into this kind of trouble I waited, but in some cases it took over half a year for the database to update itself. In other cases those issues never clear (or I did not wait long enough), like with Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_malformed_coordi nate_tags , which due to a long fixed bug in {{#coordinates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData }} was filled with 40k files which did not have any issues. Then the only solution I know is Pywikibot/touch.py (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/touch.py ), which I recently used to clear {{#coordinates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData }} issues.
Is there a better way to synchronize database with reality?
Jarek T.
(user:jarekt http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jarekt )
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It takes a lot of work to reparse 4 million pages. If it makes you feel better, the toolserver transclusion count you linked to is about 20000 pages higher than the real number of transclusions.
but in some cases it took over half a year for the database to update itself
If something is taking 6 months, it probably means that some sort of bug happened, and the pages aren't being refreshed at all.
The transclusion dependencies do not correct themselves even with a Purge, but page edit fixes it.
Yes, null edits update links tables (e.g. Categories, whatlinkshere, Special:LinkSearch, etc) purges do not.
Also several times I got some sort of internal database errors when using Special:WhatLinksHere.
That shouldn't happen. What sort of things were you doing when the error happened?
--bawolff