On 08/04/2008, Walter Vermeir <walter(a)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.