refreshLinks.php[1] can fix that.

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RefreshLinks.php

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Daniel Barrett <d...@vistaprint.com>wrote:

> I'm the original poster -- here is my real-world use case where a null
> edit is required.
>
> My wiki has a custom parser tag, (say) <foobar>.  Many articles include it
> in their wikitext.
>
> We modified the code for <foobar> to add a feature: autocategorizing. It
> automatically categorizes any article that contains it (say, in
> "Category:Articles containing the foobar tag").
>
> After this code change is deployed, if you visit an article Blat that
> previously contained <foobar>, you will see it is properly categorized at
> the bottom. However, if you visit the category page for "Articles
> containing the foobar tag", it is missing Blat (and tons of other articles).
>
> If you perform a null edit on Blat, it then shows up on the category page.
>  Purging Blat (action=purge) does not have this effect.
>
> DanB
>
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