Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

When you import an XML file, the article and revision are created properly.
However, links, categories, searches, etc are NOT updated.
The fix is here :

// !FIX-1 : // !FILE : SpecialImport.php
function importOldRevision() 
at the end of the method,
just before returning true, add this line :

   $article->editUpdates($article->preSaveTransform($this->getText())) ;

I am not really sure the 'preSaveTransform' stuff is really needed in this case,
but, it will not harm.