From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com
This answered my question.
When I ran this by hand, it took a long time, so I better just stick with
1000 and
click it a bunch of times. That's no bother to me.
If I drop the tables will the site break until I create them again?
WAIT!! It just occurred to me that there is a problem because you probably by now have dropped the cur_linked_links and cur_unlinked_links columns, right? The script updLinks.php assumes they are still there and gets its information for the new tables from them. So just running it again won't work.
No panic, the linking information is still there except we now need a different script because we need to get it out of the cur_text field. This is a bit of a problem because I really have to prepare some lessons for tomorrow. Any of the other programmers feel able to do this?
-- Jan Hidders
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