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Improper caching of pages?
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Author: rengaw03

Description:
I was viewing the English Wikipedia page on "Tungsten", and noticed a minor
vandalism. When I clicked on "Edit" to fix the problem, it didn't show up, and
looking at the page history indicated that the vandalism had been fixed a day
and a half earlier, with two edits taking place since, neither of which showed
up in the article until I reloaded the page.

I've noticed numerous cases of the main page being up to three days out of date

  • it happens about half the time when I view the page -- but I'd just put it

down to my web browser using a cached version when it shouldn't. But this time,
it happened on a page I've never viewed before.

Version: 1.3.x
Severity: normal

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bz789

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 7:02 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.
• bzimport set Reference to bz789.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Oct 26 2004, 6:48 PM
• bzimport added a comment.Jun 7 2005, 1:35 AM

zigger wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)
Since this report, there have been various changes made to the control of
browser and proxy caching, and to the caching infrastructure at the Wikimedia sites.

But from the description and lack of other reports, a bad or over-aggressively
caching proxy between you and the Wikipedia site seems to be the most likely cause.

When did this last occur? What browser and intermediary proxies were used?
Logged-in or anonymous?

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 15 2005, 10:05 PM

rengaw03 wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

(In reply to comment #0)
Since this report, there have been various changes made to the control of
browser and proxy caching, and to the caching infrastructure at the Wikimedia

sites.

But from the description and lack of other reports, a bad or over-aggressively
caching proxy between you and the Wikipedia site seems to be the most likely

cause.

When did this last occur? What browser and intermediary proxies were used?
Logged-in or anonymous?

It hasn't happened in a long time, I think since a week or two after I filed the
bug report. As far as I'm aware, my ISP (Comcast cable) doesn't use a caching
proxy. It only happened while I was logged in, but I almost never browse
Wikipedia while logged out.

• bzimport added a comment.Jun 16 2005, 12:37 PM

zigger wrote:

Resolving as WORKSFORME.

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