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Functions

although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings e g rebuilding
link updating the search etc
The files in the archives
directory are used to upgrade
the database schema when
updating the software Some
schema definitions for 
alternative (as yet unsupported) database management systems are stored here too.The"storage"directory contains scripts and resources useful for working with external storage clusters

Variables

although this is appropriate
in some 
cases
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings e g rebuilding
link updating the search etc
The files in the archives
directory are used to upgrade
the database schema when
updating the software Some
schema definitions for and are
not likely to be particularly
useful to the vast majority of
installations This directory
does contain the compressOld
which can be useful for
compacting old 
data
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki 
database
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings e g rebuilding
link updating the search etc
The files in the archives
directory are used to upgrade
the database schema when
updating the software Some
schema definitions for and are
not likely to be particularly
useful to the vast majority of
installations This directory
does contain the compressOld 
however
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings e g rebuilding
link updating the search 
indices
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings e g rebuilding
link updating the search etc
The files in the archives
directory are used to upgrade
the database schema when
updating the software Some
schema definitions for and are
not likely to be particularly
useful to the vast majority of
installations This directory
does contain the compressOld
which can be useful for
compacting old these should be
run from the command line Not
all scripts are 
listed
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings 
php
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings e g rebuilding
link updating the search etc
The files in the archives
directory are used to upgrade
the database schema when
updating the software Some
schema definitions for and are
not likely to be particularly
useful to the vast majority of
installations This directory
does contain the compressOld 
scripts
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing 
so
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings e g rebuilding
link updating the search etc
The files in the archives
directory are used to upgrade
the database schema when
updating the software Some
schema definitions for and are
not likely to be particularly
useful to the vast majority of
installations This directory
does contain the compressOld
which can be useful for
compacting old these should be
run from the command line Not
all scripts are as some are
Wikimedia 
specific
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide first create a MySQL
user with all permissions on
the wiki and then set
$wgDBadminuser and
$wgDBadminpassword in your
LocalSettings e g rebuilding
link 
tables
although this is appropriate
in some e g manual creation of
blank tables prior to an
import Most of the PHP scripts
need to be run from the
command line Prior to doing
ensure that the LocalSettings
php file in the directory
above points to the proper
installation Certain scripts
will require elevated access
to the database In order to
provide 
this

Function Documentation

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings e g rebuilding link updating the search etc The files in the archives directory are used to upgrade the database schema when updating the software Some schema definitions for alternative ( as yet  unsupported)

Variable Documentation

although this is appropriate in some cases

Definition at line 1 of file README.

Referenced by CLDRPluralRuleEvaluatorTest::validTestCases().

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings e g rebuilding link updating the search etc The files in the archives directory are used to upgrade the database schema when updating the software Some schema definitions for and are not likely to be particularly useful to the vast majority of installations This directory does contain the compressOld which can be useful for compacting old data
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== Maintenance scripts ===

As noted above

Definition at line 30 of file README.

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki database

Definition at line 1 of file README.

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings e g rebuilding link updating the search etc The files in the archives directory are used to upgrade the database schema when updating the software Some schema definitions for and are not likely to be particularly useful to the vast majority of installations This directory does contain the compressOld however

Definition at line 28 of file README.

Referenced by wfStreamThumb().

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings e g rebuilding link updating the search indices

Definition at line 16 of file README.

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings e g rebuilding link updating the search etc The files in the archives directory are used to upgrade the database schema when updating the software Some schema definitions for and are not likely to be particularly useful to the vast majority of installations This directory does contain the compressOld which can be useful for compacting old these should be run from the command line Not all scripts are listed

Definition at line 30 of file README.

Referenced by MysqlUpdater::getCoreUpdateList(), and SqliteUpdater::getCoreUpdateList().

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings php
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== Brief explanation of files ===

A lot of the files in this directory are PHP scripts used to perform various
maintenance tasks on the wiki database

Definition at line 16 of file README.

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings e g rebuilding link updating the search etc The files in the archives directory are used to upgrade the database schema when updating the software Some schema definitions for and are not likely to be particularly useful to the vast majority of installations This directory does contain the compressOld scripts

Definition at line 28 of file README.

although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing so
although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings e g rebuilding link updating the search etc The files in the archives directory are used to upgrade the database schema when updating the software Some schema definitions for and are not likely to be particularly useful to the vast majority of installations This directory does contain the compressOld which can be useful for compacting old these should be run from the command line Not all scripts are as some are Wikimedia specific
although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide first create a MySQL user with all permissions on the wiki and then set $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings e g rebuilding link tables
although this is appropriate in some e g manual creation of blank tables prior to an import Most of the PHP scripts need to be run from the command line Prior to doing ensure that the LocalSettings php file in the directory above points to the proper installation Certain scripts will require elevated access to the database In order to provide this

Definition at line 1 of file README.