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Brion mentioned on November 21 the miser mode override facility that would supposedly let people update the saved copy easily by adding &magic=yes to the end of the URL. e.g.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages&magic=yes

No. No, that's not the correct link.

Read that previous message again.

Oops - try http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&magic=y...

instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages

i.e. insert "/w", prefix article title with "wiki.phtml?title=" and suffix with "&magic=yes"

Sorry about that.

Michael