[Mediawiki-l] Category links still not being regenerated

[Rob Church]

This is down to caching. Wikimedia web sites use a weird and wonderful
caching system, but your local machine or server likely doesn't. The
action=purge part causes the cache to be cleared for that particular
page. Try also a hard-refresh.

Incidentally, Wikimedia web sites all run 1.6-cvs, which is
pre-pre-pre-alpha. When the development team works for you, you can
afford to live dangerously. :-)


Rob Church

On 27/10/05, Ben Arnold (DSLWN) <BenA at datacom.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi, does anyone have some suggestions to offer? I'm quite stuck with
> this!
>
> I have succesfully upgraded to MediaWiki 1.5.1 on the off-chance that it
> was a bug that has been fixed in the latest version. No luck. I'm still
> having the problem. I notice that it doesn't happen at en.wikipedia
> which is at 1.6alpha.
>
> To summarise:
> - add a new category link to an article (e.g. [[Category:New category]])
> & save
> - category appears in red (because it's a link to an edit page)
> - follow the link & save a description of the category
> - go back to the original article
> - link still appears in red and you have to use action=purge to fix it
>
> I'm now using MediaWiki 1.5.1, PHP 4.3.8, MySQL 4.0.20a-debug.
>
> Anyone else had this problem? Something like this? Know how to work
> around it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Ben
>
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