In message 80CAA890-1C6B-11D8-8ABC-000A95DAA284@pobox.com, Brion Vibber brion-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org writes
On Nov 21, 2003, at 13:14, Tomos at Wikipedia wrote:
Since many of the special: pages have been disabled for quite a while now, some people want updates on those info.
If you slip "magic=yes" into the URL, it'll temporarily disable miser mode for that page load. For the pages that cache an old copy, it'll update the cached copy. Please use in moderation.
eg, http://.....org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Lonelypages&magic=yes
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I tried that on cy.wikipedia and got "You have requested a special page that is not recognized by the wiki software." :(