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MidnightLightning
MidnightLightning

Reputation: 6928

Mediawiki interwiki link not updating?

After using a particular interwiki link for a while on my wiki (Mediawiki 1.15.1), the other wiki changed its domain name, and I'd like to update my interwiki links. I changed the URL in the mw_interwiki table, but the links aren't updating.

I have tried adding "?action=purge" on the page with the links. I do not appear to have $wgInterwikiCache set in my LocalSettings file, and the mw_transcache table has no rows in it.

Is there something else I need to do to trigger an interwiki URL update?

EDIT Time solved this problem; after a few hours the links updated, so it's probably a caching issue. Not sure what process would be best to force a cache break if ?action=purge doesn't do it, though.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 345

Answers (2)

Woozle
Woozle

Reputation: 11

Using version 1.4.1 of Extension:Interwiki (on MediaWiki 1.20.2), I had the same problem. Even after deleting the interwiki entry, page previews continued to use the previously-stored value.

Upgrading to Interwiki 2.2 20120425 caused my next interwiki edit attempt to fail, but I was able to delete the entry and recreate it; after that, the links finally updated.

Upvotes: 1

Bernd
Bernd

Reputation: 1

Use Extension:Interwiki to do the change. It will update the links instantly.

Upvotes: 0

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