Ricordisamoa wrote: >It looks like the Purge extension ><https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Purge> for MediaWiki could be >very useful to replace many similar gadgets on Wikimedia sites. >New users often need to purge the server cache, and don't know how to do >it. A simple link is way more helpful than "visit the history page and >replace 'history' with 'purge'", etc. Also, a server-side extension has >much better i18n support and works without JavaScript. Is anyone >interested in getting it in?
Hi. Rather than trying find ways to institutionalize the purge action, I'd strongly prefer that we examine the purge action's current use-cases and find ways to obviate them. Purging should be an internal implementation detail and any time a user feels that manually purging a page is required, MediaWiki has failed the user. In this way, the lack of user interface exposure for the purge action is basically intentional: we don't want to expose an action that most users shouldn't ever need to take. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56902 has some additional thoughts on deprecating the purge action in MediaWiki, as it's basically a hack. This is _not_ to say that the underlying challenges here are trivial; in fact, cache invalidation is regularly called one of the hardest problems in computer science. However, in my opinion, a manual purge action is an architectural blemish that we should seek to eliminate long-term. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
