I’ll try it with the switches as you’ve suggested and let you know. Thanks, James!
-Rich
From: James Montalvo [mailto:jamesmontalvo3@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:46 PM
To: Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000)
Cc: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list; Semantic MediaWiki users
Subject: Re: [Semediawiki-user] maintenance script to perform "null edit" to all
pages.
Have you tried:
php rebuildData.php -v --categories="Some_category_name" --skip-properties
I'm not actually certain on the syntax of categories...guessing it'd be
"Some_category_name,Another_category". The docs [1] also give the option to do
this instead of categories: --query='[[Category:SomeCategory]]'
I believe we've talked in the past that rebuildData.php wouldn't work for your
case, but I think as long as you don't include the -f option (which wipes out all SMW
data first) it should work. Also the addition of --skip-properties may be necessary
[1]
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Maintenance_script_rebuildData…
--James
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 9:27 AM Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via Semediawiki-user
<semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:semediawiki-user@lists.sourceforge.net>>
wrote:
I should clarify --- I'm creating a calculated Boolean property called "is
expired" and using a date calculation in the template to set it to true or false.
This is ultimately what I want updated every night. Then those pages that are newly
calculated as "is expired=true" can be made to go into a Category called
"Expired Items" that users can then "watch" using the extension
"CategoryWatch", thus generating email notifications.
Does that make sense?
Is there a maintenance script that would perform a "null-edit" of every page (or
all pages in a category)?
-Rich
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From: Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000)
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2018 2:36 PM
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Subject: API call to purge all pages in a specific category
Folks,
Quick MW 1.30 question regarding remote refreshing of pages needed by a SMW application.
Can someone tell me how to write an API call that Purges all pages in a specific
category?
Background --- I have a semantic "Class" (a Form, Template, and Category set of
pages that work together) called "MyTasks" that produces task tracking pages
with a few date fields including one called "Property:has date needed by" (of
type date)--- Within "Template:MyTasks", I have manually added an additional
semantic property that is not used by the Form. It is called "Property:has days till
due" (of type number). Also within the template I calculate the difference in the
number of days between the current system time of the client where the page is being
viewed and the "has date needed by" provided previously by the form. The goal is
to be able to write a semantic query that show all tasks that are due in less than 10
days. For example: {{#ask:[[Category:MyTasks]][[has days till due::<10]]|format=ol}}
The problem is ---- I need to refresh the wiki pages in Category:MyTasks every night so
that the "has days till due" value gets updated each day.
My thought is to have an API call that purge all files in a given category I can add that
to a cURL command in a PHP file on the server that I can call nightly from a cron job.
Thanks!
-Rich
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