On 28 Dec 2014 08:16, "MZMcBride" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
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