Brion Vibber wrote:
Benjamin Lees wrote:
Bug 11533: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11533
Bah! That was a depressing one-line fix that never got applied. :)
Applied now to trunk: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/42796
Read-only mode has been repurposed from the original "nothing must write to the database" to "users should not be able to edit or alter anything user-visible".
wfReadOnly() wasn't preventing db writes by the article counter and some other stuff so preventing objectcache writes was a bit inconsistent.