On 08/04/2008, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
How does the caching of pages for the WMF projects work? One of the edit summary's was; "Relax; these are completely harmless, and just for a day. "Yes, we're aware of Wikipedia's criticisms, and we're still confident enough in our project that we can joke about it"
Not a full answer, but: UI elements change *really slowly*. ?action=purge doesn't change them, I'm not sure if there's a way to force a change (or should be for even local wiki admins). I discovered this fiddling with MediaWiki:Sidebar and MediaWiki:Copyright on en:wp ... 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.
- d.