Manual:populateRevisionLength.php

MediaWiki versions:

1.17 – 1.43

MediaWiki file: populateRevisionLength.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.42.4 • 1.41.5 • 1.39.11
Classes:	PopulateRevisionLength

Details

populateRevisionLength.php file is a maintenance script to populate the rev_len and ar_len fields for old revisions created before MW 1.10.

The rev_len and ar_len fields contain the length of the article in bytes after a new revision or deletion.

This script runs by default when you run update.php . It processes 200 items in a batch.

Options/arguments

This script does not take any options or arguments.

Usage

php maintenance/run.php populateRevisionLength

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php populateRevisionLength

Populating rev_len column
...doing rev_id from 1 to 200
...doing rev_id from 201 to 400
...doing rev_id from 401 to 600
...doing rev_id from 601 to 800
Populating ar_len column
...doing ar_id from 1 to 200

rev_len and ar_len population complete [0 revision rows, 0 archive rows].

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

• Revision table
• Archive table
• Manual:PopulateRevisionSha1.php
• Manual:DeleteOrphanedRevisions.php