I am a member of a mediawiki, not a sysop. I have been adding content to the wiki, but I have encountered a couple of (related?) problems. I like the mediawiki interface, very simple, but the problems I am having are unacceptable and may cause me to recommend a change in software.
I make changes and non-members cannot see them. Before I log in, I cannot see the changes I have made. After I log in, I can see my changes.
I make changes which later disappear. I added a page to the main page and populated it. Now the page is missing this has happened more than once.
I expect that these are generic issues which have configuration based causes, rather than being bugs, but I have not found these issues reported or in FAQs. There are similar issues in bugzilla, but the descriptions are subtlely different.
MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4rc1 PHP (http://www.php.net/): 4.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 4.1.10a
Scott Emery emery@nas.nasa.gov
Scott T. Emery wrote:
MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4rc1
Before investigating *anything* else, this needs to be upgraded to the current 1.4 stable release.
As for possible caching issues: check that clocks are correct, headers are being sent correctly, and if a reverse squid proxy is being used make sure that it's set up properly and purge requests are being sent and accepted.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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