There has been a persistent bug in mediawiki for at least two years that has gone unfixed and ignored. Right now when a page's protection status is updated the link tables associated with it are not refreshed. Depending on the configuration/use case of a wiki such a failure is problematic. (Example I have a namespace for a specific type of articles and they all share a template that dumps the page into one of two categories, reviewed and not reviewed categories. When a page is reviewed its also protected, however mediawiki fails to update the link tables)
This issue has been documented for about two and a half years (see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34039 ) I poked the bug about a year ago when I noticed this issue on my wiki. Given the complete lack of a response on bugzilla Im trying here. It shouldnt be that big of a deal to purge/refresh the link tables of the current page when its protected. Can we please get the ball rolling on this issue? Thanks _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
