Manual:populateBacklinkNamespace.php

MediaWiki versions:

1.24 – 1.43

MediaWiki file: populateBacklinkNamespace.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.43.1 • 1.42.6 • 1.39.12
Classes:	PopulateBacklinkNamespace

Details

populateBacklinkNamespace.php file is a maintenance script to populate *_from_namespace fields.

Options

Option	Description	Required
--lastUpdatedId	Highest page_id with updated links	Optional

Usage

php maintenance/run.php populateBacklinkNamespace [ --lastUpdatedId ]

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php populateBacklinkNamespace

Updating *_from_namespace fields in links tables.
...doing page_id from 1 to 200
...doing page_id from 201 to 400
...doing page_id from 401 to 600
...doing page_id from 601 to 800
...doing page_id from 801 to 1000

In MediaWiki version 1.39.12 and earlier, you must invoke maintenance scripts using php maintenance/scriptName.php instead of php maintenance/run.php scriptName.

See also

• Manual:Namespace
• Manual:populateInterwiki.php
• Manual:dumpLinks.php