Manual:clearInterwikiCache.php

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MediaWiki file: clearInterwikiCache.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.41.1 • 1.40.3 • 1.39.7
Classes:	ClearInterwikiCache

Details

clearInterwikiCache.php is a maintenance script to clear the interwiki links for all languages in memcached .

This script will clear the interwiki cache on all databases configured in $wgLocalDatabases . If there's no database configured, this script will do nothing. See <translate> task <tvar name=1>T289704</tvar></translate>

Options/Arguments

This script does not take any options.

Usage

php maintenance/clearInterwikiCache.php

Terminal

$ php maintenance/clearInterwikiCache.php

wikipedia...done
meta...done
news...done

Troubleshooting

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<translate> Task <tvar name=1>T289704</tvar></translate>

If the script does not output anything it means nothing was done because you have no "local database". This problem is caused by the default value of the $wgLocalDatabases configuration. This behavior deserves further explanation but the quick workaround is to add your database name to that array.

See also

• Manual:Interwiki
• Interwiki cache
• Manual:DumpInterwiki.php