[Mediawiki-l] Purging a cached page

[Rob Church]

On 10/07/06, Arthur Guy <Arthur at assys.net> wrote:
> URL's aren't "kept" any ware, the address you use to view the page you
> want to purge is the URL you need.
>
> Say you have a page called Cache then you would type
> www.wiki.com/wiki/Cache?action=purge
>
> Or you would view the page in question and add ?action=puge to it.

That's not strictly the case; dodgy rewriting, etc. means you're far
safer using the canonical URL to index.php, whatever it is, for
instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Foo&action=purge


Rob Church