On Nov 13, 2007 6:41 PM, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/13/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
Doesn't this happen anyway? A logged-in user viewing a page for the first time will never get a cached version.
Sure they will, if someone with the same parse-affecting preferences has viewed it before them. And they don't have the "no cached pages" preference on.
I'm confused; what exactly is in the cache for logged in users?
The HTML I see coming out the end has encoded username variable and username in scripts and so forth.
I always assumed that logged in users generated a new HTML render every time they hit a page, and that we assumed that logged in users were a small enough fraction of total page views that it wasn't a big deal. But I'm not familiar with the Wikipedia cacheing at all in detail; I've run a lot of Mediawiki servers but never bothered to cache anything (none of them had enough hits to make it worthwhile trying).
So... what's the underlying mechanism?
Thanks...