On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:14 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/04/2008, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
David Gerard <dgerard@...> writes:
... changes sometimes took hours to show. So the people playing April Fool gags were right that it would change back, but certainly not on the order of minutes.
Thanks for the responds. In the case I noticed it was 7 days.
*splutter* Er, yes. Probably someone should let the admins who made said changes know just how long they lasted for some people.
It's not just some people it's any anon hitting some pages until those pages get purged by something else. Site wide system messages do not cause cache purging because otherwise every edit to them would cause an outage.
For messages which must display everywhere and which must change javascript injection should be used. (This is how the fundraiser notices work). Of course, in playing with javascript there are even more possible ways to kill the site.
The technical issues aside, ... Does enwiki need to add "Are you smart enough to avoid falsely and misleadingly using a competitors trademark on every page on site site just for lulz?"