I realize it's been a while, but I thought I would share our result. We wrote an extension - titled "nocache" that simply included the code from meta at (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions_FAQ). This gives us a tag that we can put on any page and seems 99% of the time to defeat the browser cache.
Seems to be working for us at least. Your mileage may vary :)
Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rowan Collins Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:35 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Variables in Wikitext & Browser Caching
On 14/06/05, Rick DeNatale rick.denatale@gmail.com wrote:
Something doesn't compute here Rowan.
{{MPHist/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}{{CURRENTDAY}}}} which selects the proper subpage for the date. And this seems to work.
Hmm; my memory was that that explicitly *didn't* work without manual intervention (i.e. trivial/null edits or cache purges), but maybe someone came up with a solution already?
Wikipedia's Talk:Main_Page still has the prominent message "Main Page out of date? Purge the cache (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=purge)..."
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