"Simetrical" <Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:7c2a12e20610121535u370b343p6046c097931c8030@mail.gmail.com... wrote: improving they now. Yup, fine.... I guess you know that by now, but I didn't want to leave your question dangling. :) - Mark Clements (HappyDog)

Just thinking aloud here, but what if the $wgStyleVersion string was determined automatically by MediaWiki? For example, for a stable release, it could use the $wgVersion string as the $wgStyleVersion (and even though there'd be some erroneous cache-misses on a stable version upgrade, it wouldn't be a big deal, because stable version updates happen relatively infrequently). And in an SVN-tracking environment it could perhaps do something like ' max( "committed-rev" string in .svn/entries for skins/common/wikibits.js, "committed-rev" string in .svn/entries for skins/monobook/main.css, and so forth for the list of CSS/JS files) '. ( In other words, something sort of semi-similar to the way that the version string in [[Special:Version]] automatically displays the SVN revision number for a development tree, or just the $wgVersion for a stable install. ) The upside is that there'd be one less thing for us fallible humans to have to remember (and predictably forget). The downside though is doing it in a way that doesn't kill performance. All the best, Nick.