Update the interwiki cache

The interwiki cache is a cache of the interwiki map page at Meta-Wiki, which maps interwiki prefixes to URLs.

How-To

To update it, run from /srv/mediawiki-staging/ in the deployment server the code below and follow the instructions:

you@deploy1001:/srv/mediawiki-staging$ scap update-interwiki-cache

• You will be prompted to enter your gerrit username.
• Next you'll be prompted to enter a Gerrit HTTP password for said account name (this is so Scap can upload a patch with the updated code on your behalf; see below for a patch uploaded using this plugin).
• Scap will then upload said patch to Gerrit and +2 it. Wait until the patch uploaded is merged by jenkins-bot before continuing.
• While waiting, you should see this prompt:

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  remote: Processing changes: new: 1, done                             
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  remote: New Changes:                                                 
  remote:   https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/xxxxxx Updating interwiki cache
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  Has your change merged yet? [y/N]:
  

• Answer 'yes' once the patch is merged so the deployment can continue. Scap will take care of continuing with the deployment.
• Congratulations! You've successfully updated the interwiki cache.

Related

• A patch uploaded when using this script.
• task T197549 - a request to update the interwiki cache.
• task T192469 - somewhat shows the output of the scap update-interwiki-cache (in a different context).
• task T197166#4295654 - the script will fail if you do not have +2 rights on the operations/mediawiki-config.git repository.