Manual:updateSpecialPages.php

MediaWiki file: updateSpecialPages.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.42.3 • 1.41.4 • 1.39.10
Classes:	UpdateSpecialPages

Details

updateSpecialPages.php file is a maintenance script to update the information on the special pages that cache results in the querycache table. This information includes Special:WantedTemplates, Special:Wantedpages and Special:Wantedfiles among many others. A full list is found in QueryPage.php. Extensions may extend this list using the wgQueryPages hook so that special pages added by that extension will be covered by this maintenance script.

The configuration setting $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate can be used to exclude certain special pages from being updated.

Usage

php updateSpecialPages.php

Options

Option/Parameter	Description
--list	Only list special page names, doesn't perform updates.
--only=page	Only update "page". It's case sensitive, check correct case by calling this script with --list. Example: --only=BrokenRedirects
--override	Also update pages that have updates disabled by $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate .