In case anyone's following this thread, the conclusion was that both problems are already in Bugzilla as known defects:

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3424

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3805

Ben

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ben Arnold (DSLWN) Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 4:38 p.m. To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Category caching & "new messages" problems

I am running MediaWiki 1.5beta4 on the Saint WAMP 3.3.4 and I have two problems. It's possible that both problems have the same root cause. Any help would be much appreciated!

Problem 1: Category caching

The first problem I have involves the server-side caching of categories at the bottom of an article page. If I edit an article and give it a brand-new category, then save the article, the category name is displayed in red (because the category doesn't yet exist). This is what I expect. So I click on the category name to bring up the edit page, enter some text and save the category.

When I return to the original article the category name still appears in red and still uses "action=edit". I want the category name to be blue and to link to the article without editing it.

Additional information: - If I control-refresh my browser the category still appears in red with action=edit - If a user who's never been to the article browses the article the category still appears in red with action=edit - If I view the article through a redirect the category appears in blue - If I add new articles to the category, they appear in blue - If I add action=purge, this fixes the problem --- but since the problem occurs every time I create a category, this is not a solution! - I have made some manual changes to LocalSettings.php and httpd.conf (see below)

Problem 2: "New messages"

If a user leaves a message for another user on their talk page they get a "new messages" banner. This banner never disappears.

I searched around on the web a while and found a solution: get the user to watch and unwatch their talk page. Again, this solves the immediate problem but isn't a permanent solution.

Customisation

I have made a few manual changes to my LocalSettings.php:

# Must be logged in to edit $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;

# Must be a Sysop to create accounts $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

# Enables uploading of all file types $wgStrictFileExtensions = false; $wgCheckFileExtensions = false; $wgEnableUploads = true;

# Short article paths $wgArticlePath = "/w/$1";

# Timezone NZDT $wgLocalTZoffset = 13;

And two changes to httpd.conf:

Alias /w /web/root/wiki/index.php LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Thanks for your help,

Ben Arnold

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