https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37616
--- Comment #15 from Matthias Mullie <[email protected]> 2012-06-20 14:17:59 UTC --- Fabrice: It looks like we'll be able to start the lottery on next week's deployment. I would like to "warn" about the cache though: - By next week, not all articles will have been edited; the lottery will only start working for those that have been edited in the meantime (regardless of whether or not the talk page has been updated) - Likewise, the talk page link will only start working at the moment the talk page has been edited (regardless of whether or not the article has been updated) - Because the category-check has to be in PHP (we can't fetch it from the talk page JS), it suffers from caching; which means that when you white- or blacklist an article, it won't propagate immediately (well, it will on the article page, since you're editing it when adding a category; but it'll take until the talk page is edited for that link to be gone there) Even though we should perfectly be able to start the lottery next week, it won't be perfect; the white-/blacklisting is a bit cripled as well. I don't know how important the talk page link is or whether it could be an option to move the talk page link to the article itself (perhaps only for selected users)? Suppose we were to get rid of the link on the talk page, we could reinstate everything to solely Javascript and we wouldn't suffer from the above-described issues. We don't have to get rid of it; if it's useful and there's no similar alternative, we should definitely keep it around - just wanted to let you know the situation with the caches. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
