Manual:PopulateContentTables.php

Details
populateContentTables.php migrates revision data to account for DB schema changes done as part of the  project (creation of the, ,  and  tables, deprecation of the concept of ).

It was introduced with MediaWiki 1.32.0 with revision rMWc22a2c9f752d56165490d5df786b46db76cc13ba.

See (or the  RfC as an earlier, less accurate but more accessible draft) for background.

It's run automatically by and process 500 items in a batch.

Changes since MediaWiki 1.32.4

 * Compute sha1 and length if needed in maintenance/populateContentTables.php.