[Wikipedia-l] Re: New server online?

[Toby Bartels]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>The new software is what I get at www.wikipedia.com.  Very nice stuff.

OK, I don't know *what* is wrong with my system.

I have two web browsers available, IE 5 and Netscape 4, both for Unix.
I've been using IE, since Netscape 4 is too out of date
to have the special characters for the math articles.

When I go to www.wikipedia.com using IE,
I get a snapshot that was apparently taken shortly after 10:48.
The Recent Changes on that snapshot begin:

(diff) Wikipedia:Unsuccessful searches (2002-07); 19:32 (1 change) . . . M [Unsuccessful search for force maje]
(diff) Log:Uploads; 15:29 (1 change) . . . PierreAbbat M [Deletion of file Fade.class]
(diff) Isla Perejil; 10:48 . . . Caltrop N [In the news....]
...

But when I go to www.wikipedia.com using Netscape,
I get a new server, with all kinds of recent changes since 17:33:

...
* (diff) (hist) . . Main Page; 17:33 . . Lee Daniel Crocker
* (diff) (hist) . . M Wikipedia:Unsuccessful searches (2002-07); 11:19 . . Unknown (Unsuccessful search for lena olin)
* (diff) (hist) . . M Isla Perejil; 10:48 . . Caltrop (In the news....)
...

I'm Shift-Refreshing like mad, and IE just doesn't work.
Considering that I didn't even look at the site today until after 17:33,
how can this even be happening, much less be fixed?

...

Well, I just deleted all of my temporary Internet files for IE.
Now it's working!  But I still wonder what was going on.


-- Toby Bartels
   toby+wikipedia-l at math.ucr.edu