[Mediawiki-l] moving templates

[Frederich, Eric P2173]

Did not try that.
I did try clicking on the refresh button while holding shift.
I guess these are two different things...I'll have to try that next
time.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Lane, Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] moving templates

Did you remember to clear your cache? You also may want to try purging
the parser cache using ?&action=purge (not sure if this will be
necessary or not, but it wouldn't hurt to try).

V/r,

Ryan Lane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
> bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Frederich, Eric P2173
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 2:14 PM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] moving templates
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I had a template.  Lets say it was called 'XYZ Guide'.
> The template was like below....
> 
> {| cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 style="background-color: #AEEEEE;
border:
> 1px dashed black; padding: 0px 4px;"
> |-
> |
> This article is part of the '''[[XYZ_GUIDE|XYZ Guide]]'''
> |}
> 
> 
> Now, I created a couple of pages with {{XYZ GUIDE}} and then decided I
> would move the page XYZ_GUIDE to XYZ_INSTRUCTIONS using the move tab.
> So I figured I should change the template too.  I moved the template
to
> Template:XYZ_INSTRUCTIONS using the move tab.  I also changed the
> template to the following....
> 
> {| cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 style="background-color: #AEEEEE;
border:
> 1px dashed black; padding: 0px 4px;"
> |-
> |
> This article is part of the '''[[XYZ_INSTRUCTIONS|XYZ
Instructions]]'''
> |}
> 
> Now when I create new pages and have {{XYZ GUIDE}} on them the page
the
> template displays the word instructions and links to the instructions
> page.
> The problem I have now is all of the old pages still have a box that
> says "XYZ Guide" on them.
> 
> Could someone please explain to me how this can be?  I realize that I
> have two templates now.  One called XYZ_INSTRUCTIONS which says XYZ
> Instructions and another one called XYZ_GUIDE which is a redirection
to
> XYZ_INSTRUCTIONS.  So my question is...why am I still seeing the word
> guide on my pages?  I thought I got rid of it.  The only thing that
says
> guide is the template which redirects to the Instruction template.
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Eric
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