On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:14 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 08/04/2008, Walter Vermeir
<walter(a)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?"