I'm trying to get this straight in my head. I couldn't find anything about it in the MediaWiki handbook, so I'll update it once I get a clearer picture.

I think what you're saying is that it's normal to have to purge after making certain kinds of changes -- unless you're using the sophisticated caching that the Wikimedia servers use.

In other words it's a known "feature" and not something I've done wrong in my configuration.

Or are you saying that I've got my configuration in some messy half-way stage where it thinks it's got sophisticated caching but it hasn't... and that's why I'm having caching issues.

How should I solve the problem? Can I turn off caching? Or is it a matter of teaching the users how to manually purge the cache after certain kinds of changes?

Sorry for all the questions, but thanks for the answers. I'll make sure it gets in the handbook!

Ben

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Friday, 28 October 2005 4:48 a.m. To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Category links still not being regenerated

This is down to caching. Wikimedia web sites use a weird and wonderful caching system, but your local machine or server likely doesn't. The action=purge part causes the cache to be cleared for that particular page. Try also a hard-refresh.

Incidentally, Wikimedia web sites all run 1.6-cvs, which is pre-pre-pre-alpha. When the development team works for you, you can afford to live dangerously. :-)

Rob Church

On 27/10/05, Ben Arnold (DSLWN) BenA@datacom.co.nz wrote:

Hi, does anyone have some suggestions to offer? I'm quite stuck with this!

I have succesfully upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5.1 on the off-chance that it was a bug that has been fixed in the latest version. No luck. I'm still having the problem. I notice that it doesn't happen at en.wikipedia which is at 1.6alpha.

To summarise:

• add a new category link to an article (e.g. [[Category:New

category]]) & save

• category appears in red (because it's a link to an edit page)
• follow the link & save a description of the category
• go back to the original article
• link still appears in red and you have to use action=purge to fix it

I'm now using MediaWiki 1.5.1, PHP 4.3.8, MySQL 4.0.20a-debug.

Anyone else had this problem? Something like this? Know how to work around it?

Thanks in advance,

Ben

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