Forum:MediaWiki Updating

When using, is there a way to speed up the code (E.G. MedaiWiki:Twitter) to update faster? Sometimes, it takes days for somthing to update with MediaWiki. — Imdill3 (talk) 02:24, October 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * I assume you mean that you edited the MediaWiki page but the change didn't have any effect? That's probably because verbatim tags don't work like templates AFAIK. When you edit a template, the system does a Special:WhatLinksHere check then automatically purges all those pages (recursively). With verbatim tags, you will need to purge the page manually. Add "?action=purge" to the end of the URL for the page using the verbatim tag and hit enter. This should regenerate the page using the new verbatim tag contents. Lunarity 02:43, October 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * In addition to this, if you want to prevent the page from caching in the first place (so that you don't have to purge it), you can use the trick documented at Forum:Prevent page caching with forum tags. It should be used very sparingly, because in general caching is a good thing. But if you want to make sure a page that has verbatim tags, choose...option tags, or some other highly important feature on it will always update on every page load, this trick is helpful. I keep an example of it on my test wiki at w:c:mathmagician:Prevent caching example


 * Perfect, thank you very much guys! Doing this should clear the cache for everyone right? --— Imdill3 (talk) 05:36, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * Yup.—  05:51, October 29, 2012 (UTC)