Updating sitelinks on the repo (and thus language links on the client) should not require the respective wiki page to be re-parsed.
Once language links coming from the repo are available in the ParserOutput separately from the links in the wikitext, we can update the effective rendering without re-parsing the page.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T49159 Do not invalidate page content when language links change | |||
| Open | None | T47534 [Task] Remove external site links from langlinks table on client wikis | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T47535 Allow a page's language links to be manipulated in a consistent way |
Crazy idea: background job to grab the parser-cache entry, update the language links, and push it back to cache if nothing else has changed.
Might.... work. Or might be crazy. :)