[WikiEN-l] The Times on Wikipedia

[Jon]

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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:06 PM, WODUP <wikiwodup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The article says "The most notable instance of this was on the night
Barack
>> Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry
>> disappeared for nearly an hour - to be replaced with the one-line entry,
>> "Barack Obama is the new SOCIALIST President of the United States of
>> America."", but the closest I could find was this
>> edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=249916284&oldid=prev>that
>> lasted for about one minute. I wonder what she saw.
>
> It's possible that she didn't refresh, that her browser was dumb, or
> that mediawiki's  purge of the front end cache was lost and anons saw
> an old version for longer. (The last of these is not likely but it is
> possible— but every edit is another chance for the caches to get clued
> in... so in that case user error still seems likely)
>
> Perhaps we should have a "Wikipedia for reporters" page which details
> things like how to check how long some particular edit persisted.
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I like the idea "Wikipedia for reports", perhaps a very small link on
the main page.

Jon
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