2009/1/18 Charlotte Webb <[email protected]>: > On 1/17/09, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Back in the day, we used to use null edits intentionally to update >> pages after templates changed. Now we have the job queue to do that >> for us, but it still works as far as I know. > > That's nice I know. This does have its uses but there ought to be some > way to do this other than the usual get and post. Maybe some kind of > &action=null which handles it internally and skips the pre-save > transform and any surprises that may create. Something like > &action=purge but more thorough (?).
There's rarely any need now we have the job queue, so I'm not sure it's worth the time it would take to implement such a feature. Null edits work well enough for the few times they are needed. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
