A couple things added recently:
* Pages containing '{{' (as indicator of replacement variables -- date, number of articles etc) are expired from the page cache after 1 hour. This helps with the less-often-edited mainpages on some languages, where "today's date" and "we have X articles" was often wildly inaccurate for incoming anons.
* When database is locked, 'edit page' shows a read-only text field with the article text (if on a non-empty page) so text can be copied out and edited offline.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber said:
- When database is locked, 'edit page' shows a read-only text field with
the article text (if on a non-empty page) so text can be copied out and edited offline.
Can we get this for protected pages during normal operation as well? I saw (reading through archives) a WikiEN-l post suggesting it from January 1st (which you expressed agreement with).
--Jake
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