[Semediawiki-user] Semantic data will only refresh after edit - any ideas?

[Alex M. H. <ont...@on...>]

I have many pages that get assigned properties based upon embedded queries  
that are placed on the pages by way of substituting a template  
({{subst:templatename}}). Upon the first save after substitution, these  
properties appear in the factbox, but not in the browsing interface.

As described at  
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Repairing_SMW's_data#Using_the_SMW_maintenance_script  
I have tried rebuilding the properties from scratch from the command line,  
i.e.,

SMW_setup.php --delete
SMW_setup.php
SMW_refreshData.php -ftpv
SMW_refreshData.php -v (twice)

I've even run a Special:SMWAdmin data update and runJobs.php after that  
for good measure, followed by a rebuildall.php from the main MW  
maintenance directory.

Then, touch LocalSettings.php

Then, I force reload the page, (and/or action=purge or delete the browser  
cache, then reload).

Even after all that, the browse interface will not get updated unless I do  
at least a null edit, that is, edit and save the page without changing any  
text.

I get the same result whether or not I have set the following in my  
LocalSettings.php:

$wgEnableParserCache = false;
$wgCachePages = false;

I have tried using the ReplaceText extension to replace ' ' with ' ',  
which, in theory, should edit all pages (it certainly tells me it's going  
to), but this does not work. I have confirmed that pywikipediabot can  
perform an edit/save that SMW will recognize, and the browse interface  
will work properly after that. I cannot find a way to make pywikipediabot  
do a null edit, so this method has the unfortunate side effect of doubling  
all my page data for a current revision, not to mention taking quite some  
time.

This is very frustrating, particularly so because the officially suggested  
fixes do not work.

I'm using MW 1.15.1, SMWHalo 1.4.6, SMW 1.4.3; apache 2.2.8, php 5.2.5

Any ideas? For a temporary workaround, does anyone have a "null edit"  
script for pywikipediabot? I cannot seem to track one down and I don't  
know python. What about a mass "null edit" extension for MW (or the  
ReplaceText extension) in general?

Thanks,
Alex
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