Robert Rohde wrote: > I had an occasion to move (with redirect suppressed) a Mediawiki: page > into Template: The intent was that the Mediawiki system message > should then fall back to its default behavior, while the page's > contents could still be used as a template under circumstances where > it was desirable to do so. > > However, after several hours the system message is still giving the > same result and doesn't recognize that its contents were removed. > > Obviously this is some sort of caching issue, perhaps because the > software doesn't know how to react properly to having a Mediawiki page > subject to a move. Is this kind of lag likely to clear itself up in > short order? How long does the message cache persist?
This is a bug. There is code in Title::moveTo() to update the message cache but it appears to be totally wrong and broken. The message cache expiry time is 24 hours. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
