Manual:populateIpChanges.php

MediaWiki versions:

1.30 – 1.43

MediaWiki file: populateIpChanges.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.43.0 • 1.42.4 • 1.39.11
Classes:	PopulateIpChanges

Details

populateIpChanges.php is a maintenance script that finds all rows in the revision table where the user is an IP and copies relevant fields to the ip_changes table. This backfilled data is then available when querying for IP ranges on Special:Contributions.

Options

Option	Description	Required	Default
--rev-id	rev_id to start copying from.	Optional	0
--max-rev-id	rev_id to stop at	Optional	Maximum rev_id of results
--throttle	Wait this many milliseconds after copying each batch of revisions	Optional	0
--force	Run regardless of whether the database says it has been run already	Optional

Usage

php maintenance/run.php populateIpChanges [ --rev-id| --max-rev-id| --throttle| --force ]

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php populateIpChanges

Copying IP revisions to ip_changes, from rev_id 0 to rev_id 249
...checking 148 revisions for IP edits that need copying, between rev_ids 0 and 200
...checking 29 revisions for IP edits that need copying, between rev_ids 201 and 249

Attempted to insert 152 IP revisions, 0 actually done.

In MediaWiki version 1.39.10 and earlier, you must invoke maintenance scripts using php maintenance/scriptName.php instead of php maintenance/run.php scriptName.

See also

• Manual:Ip changes table
• Help:User contributions
• Manual:PopulateLogUsertext.php