On 04/11/05, Robert Jones bob@jones-cliffe.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

I am using Mediawiki 1.5.1, and I Imported my entire collection of pages in XML. Now, Special:Whatlinkshere does not show any pages on many of those which I've tested.

I think maybe the import tool doesn't pre-process the new pages it's creating in the way a normal page would; this includes recording the links, and updating the search index.

Is this a bug?

Presumably ;)

Can the whatlinkshere database be flushed somehow?

If you have shell (ssh/telnet/etc) access to your host, you can use the appropriate PHP script in the maintenance sub-directory; it's called something like "rebuildLinks.php" IIRC.

-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]