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Running maintenance scripts directly is deprecated.
Note that I didn’t update the code that actually runs update.php during installation in install.go, because that looks like it might break the update.php detection that was added to MwddSettings.php for T283417; given that I don’t even use mw cli myself, I don’t feel like I should be the one to figure out how to make that work. But updating the documentation output feels safe enough :)