Topic on Manual talk:Interwiki cache/Setup for your own wiki

These days Wikimedia uses a plain PHP array intstead of a CDB file so the script fails when trying to fetch https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/interwiki.cdb. As a workaround, create the file manually:

1. download https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/interwiki.php
2. run mwscript shell.php to get a PHP shell
3. $data = require .../interwiki.php;
4. $cdb = \Cdb\Writer::open( '.../interwiki.cdb' );
5. foreach ( $data as $key => $val ) $cdb->set( $key, $val );
6. $cdb->close();
7. You can run the Python script now.