There has been a persistent bug in mediawiki for at least two years that
has gone unfixed and ignored. Right now when a page's protection status is
updated the link tables associated with it are not refreshed. Depending on
the configuration/use case of a wiki such a failure is problematic.
(Example I have a namespace for a specific type of articles and they all
share a template that dumps the page into one of two categories, reviewed
and not reviewed categories. When a page is reviewed its also protected,
however mediawiki fails to update the link tables)
This issue has been documented for about two and a half years (see
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34039 ) I poked the bug
about a year ago when I noticed this issue on my wiki. Given the complete
lack of a response on bugzilla Im trying here. It shouldnt be that big of a
deal to purge/refresh the link tables of the current page when its
protected.
Can we please get the ball rolling on this issue?
Thanks