Manual:populateInterwiki.php

Details

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populateInterwiki.php is a maintenance script that populates the interwiki table, pulling in interwiki links that are used on Wikipedia or another MediaWiki wiki.

Options

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Option Description Required Default value
--source Source wiki for interwiki table, such as https://wiki.org/w/api.php Optional https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
--force Run regardless of whether the database says it has been run already. Optional

Usage

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php maintenance/run.php populateInterwiki [ --source| --force ]
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.

Populate with default English Wikipedia

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Terminal

Populate with custom API address

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Terminal
Whenever the script runs, it makes a note in the database and will not run again. If you want to run the script again, run the command with the --force option.

See also

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