On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
This was asked just few days ago on this list... https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/touch.py is regularly used to make millions null edits, don't bother inventing something else.
It seems touch.py should be updated to make use of forcelinkupdate, forcerecursivelinkupdate and generator parameters of api.php?action=purge, to reduce traffic.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Purge
-Liangent
Nemo
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