Manual:refreshLinks.php

From MediaWiki.org

refreshLinks.php is a maintenance script used to [re]fill pagelinks, categorylinks, imagelinks tables. You should run it if you found that Categories are empty or doesn't show all pages, if "What links here?" doesn't work well or in some other link-related trouble.

[edit] Invocation

php maintenance/refreshLinks.php [starting_article]

There are more options, you may RTFS them by

gvim maintenance/refreshLinks.php

[edit] Example

vi-notebook:/var/lib/mediawiki1.7# php maintenance/refreshLinks.php
Refreshing link table.
Starting from page_id 1 of 1426.
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