Last modified: 2014-04-15 15:33:26 UTC
The populateSitesTable.php will, by default, hit meta.wikimedia.org API to fetch the site Matrix. When setting up Wikidata for beta (bug 47827), that populate the sites and site_identifiers tables with production data which was not really what we wanted there. I had to truncate the database tables then rerun the script using --load-from. To make it easier to populate the tables, it would be nice to be able to set the site matrix remote URL via a $wg setting ( $wgWikibaseSiteMatrixUrl ? ). This way we will not have to remember about using --load-from on beta.