Try this:
[{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=purge}} purge]
When you edit a page, you'll see the &action=edit... it works just like that. This means you could have a script also visit that URL to purge the page.
e.g.: http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php?title=Sandbox&action=purge
(As an aside, I feel this functionality is abusable and should be for administrator's only.)
Sy,
On 8/17/05, Mark Johnson crvmp3@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm confused as to how to actually use the "?action=purge"? How do I use it in a intra-wiki link. For example, I tried the following:
[PracticePage?action=purge|PracticePage]
But it thinks I want to create a new page called PracticePage?action=purge, which was to be expected.
I think possibly I could solve my problem with templates but I'm not sure I follow what it's telling me to do: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:URL#Use_in_templates
I seem to only be able to make the purge option work for external links (or fully qualified links)? If I use a fully qualified url then MW marks it as an external link (even though it's not really) and since I tweaked the Links.php to always open external links in a new page this doesn't work the way that I would like it to.
Would it be possible to tweak MW to parse out the parameters after the '?' to so the the page is created correctly and then loaded correctly when called or would that cause a lot of heartburn, or do would you suggest to use a Template?
My current hack is to have a cron job running that updates the rows within the 'page' table for pages that I don't want cached with the current timestamp to fool MW into thinking the page has been touched.
Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sy Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 8:57 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Date variables in MW do not refresh automagically
On 8/17/05, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/08/05, Sy sy1234@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder if you can make a [[Template:now]] with that content, and then call that template from your page.. I think templates might act differently than regular pages.
No, they still get cached; it's just that when they *do* get editted, they automatically purge the caches of pages including them, as well as their own.
?action=purge is really cool.
I guess this means that I could badge pages with a template and purge that template as a way of "bulk-purging" multiple pages. Wicked. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l