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Ability to turn off purge confirmation
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Hello,

In the recent past (c2ce6a1b6085cf0cbf0fc2c3542fd36096bf2948), purge confirmation have been enabled on all wikis for understandable reasons.

Instead of making it a fixed function, I would like to suggest that this be turned into an option instead - i.e. the ability to turn off the confirmation (probably via LocalSettings.php). This would be more helpful for private MediaWiki-powered wikis (i.e. non-Wikimedia wikis), as the confirmation is not necessary.

Edit: Not directly related, but it is also useful (for private wikis) if a third option is available to always purge every page upon load.

I'm posting this feature request as suggested here.

This is my first feature request/suggestion. Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Rehman

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Reedy subscribed.

I note rMWc2ce6a1b6085: Require POST for action=purge in PurgeAction is just over 4 years ago now, so definitely not a blocker for MW-1.35-release

There is a trivial Javascript workaround implemented in both of the related gadgets on Wikipedia which you can lift as a gadget for yourself. See the clock gadget or purgetab.

Edit: Not directly related, but it is also useful (for private wikis) if a third option is available to always purge every page upon load.

You can try disabling all caches entirely