Hi!
I made a XML dump with --current option, then replaced some of external
domain links [http://somedomain.org] in it. When I import the dump back,
these pages aren't updated. I think that's because text processors /
editors do not update sha1 / timestamp fields. Why doesn't
maintenance/importDump
If you simply remove the timestamp from a revision in a dump, the importer
appears to happily insert it with the current time as the timestamp. This
may also cause cancer, summon Cthulhu, etc.
In addition to pywikibot, there's the Replace Text extension[0], which
ought to be able to handle what y
Replace in XML dump was done automatically and I did not want to remove
timestamp from all revisions (even from current ones) because the wiki is
quite large (about 9000 articles). So I made my own tool to touch such
revision timestamps:
https://github.com/Dmitri-Sintsov/MwDumpProcessor/commit/079c
