Liangent wrote:
There're still cases / some bugs where *links tables can't be updated automatically. touch.py and similar techniques work as a workaround.
Workaround or... hack. :-) I agree that touch.py is useful right now. I wish it were not necessary, though. If anyone's interested in killing the purge action in MediaWiki: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/54902.
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