I know the title of this report is kind of goofy, but please take a look at this enwiki VPT thread. If I've counted right, 7 different people have reported this issue over the past couple of hours, so clearly something is going on. I'm sure this will result in a phab ticket eventually, so getting a jump on that now, even if it's not well characterized.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Release | jeena | T354437 1.42.0-wmf.19 deployment blockers | ||
| Duplicate | BUG REPORT | None | T358304 Vector 2022 appears mysteriously on Thursday |
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This smells like a server-side caching issue. If I load a page that comes up in V2022, I can usually reload it repeatedly and it's still in V2022, but if I do "Hard Reload", it seems to always go back to my normal skin.
I'm using Chrome Version 121.0.6167.184 (Official Build) (arm64) on MacOS Ventura
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I don't understand why, but as I work my way through the subpages of [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/]] on enwiki, almost all of them come up in V2022 mode. Right now I'm looking at [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Markham's storm petrel/archive2]]
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Contrary to my speculation on the WP:VPT thread, this does NOT seem to depend on the state of "Enable the Edit Recovery feature" in preferences.
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This is feeling more and more like a cache problem. I've now gone through several cycles of:
- Load [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Dorothy Olsen/archive1]]
- Observe that it's in V2022
- Do a hard reload
- Observe that it's in my default skin
- Wait some amount of time. Not sure how long. 10 minutes, maybe?
- Load [[Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Dorothy Olsen/archive1]] again
- Observe that it's back in V2022
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Yep. The https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:SPIpriorcases template uses Special:PrefixIndex.
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Is there anything that went out on Thursday that could have exacerbated this problem? I note that this bug is from late 2021, but there is quite a lot of recent discussion pointing to WP:THURSDAY on the village pump.
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Noting here (since this task is linked via the discussion on wiki) that there is movement on this problem on T336504: Transcluding Special:Prefixindex can force the default skin and a mitigation was backported at 2024-02-27 10:03 UTC.
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I'd be happy to update the on-wiki status message if there's something useful I could say. I've been following the gerrit updates, but I don't know enough about the deployment process to fully understand their implications. Would be be accurate to say, "A fix has been devised and is expected to be deployed this Thursday"?
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The fix has actually been deployed yesterday (or this morning, depending on your time zone: T336504#9579650).