On 28 Dec 2014 08:16, "MZMcBride" z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Ricordisamoa wrote:
It looks like the Purge extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purge for MediaWiki could be very useful to replace many similar gadgets on Wikimedia sites. New users often need to purge the server cache, and don't know how to do it. A simple link is way more helpful than "visit the history page and replace 'history' with 'purge'", etc. Also, a server-side extension has much better i18n support and works without JavaScript. Is anyone interested in getting it in?
Hi.
Rather than trying find ways to institutionalize the purge action, I'd strongly prefer that we examine the purge action's current use-cases and find ways to obviate them.
Purging should be an internal implementation detail and any time a user feels that manually purging a page is required, MediaWiki has failed the user.
Well said.