Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-3218221-20171129112408

(For reference: Help:SpecialPages and Help:Redirects)



I paid a recent visit to the Baccano! Wiki's Special:ListRedirects page, only to to find that it listed no redirects at all (as documented in the right screenshot). No results are listed, despite multiple articles employing redirects at any given number.

I have visited other wikis' Special:ListRedirects pages and found them in working order, so I can only wonder at what has gone wrong on the Baccano! Wiki's end (if it's a caching problem, it's still beyond the scope of ?action=purge). Did also check Special:DoubleRedirects and Special:BrokenRedirects on the Baccano! Wiki - they have results.

My current thought is that I should ask Staff to do one of their "special" purges, but I decided it would behoove the situation to first bring this up in the Forum to see if others have experienced this before. I'm aware** that Special pages are regularly cached/updated, but irregular issues with Special pages' updating have happened in the past. See Thread:705507 for an example. (Note: I also checked Special:ListRedirects yesterday).

I know that HTML caching can take a long time if it involves a large number of pages/items, so I did wonder if perhaps this is one such case (e.g. when a cache has gone a long time since its last update). I did an API query to check the wiki's job queue and found it at zero, though... (if that number isn't relevant like I thought it was, I apologize in advance for looking foolish).

Am I missing anything else? Job queue, caching/script problems... I suppose I'm slightly paranoid that it'll turn out to be human error, though I can't imagine how. Do you think it would be worth that request to Staff, or is it simply a matter of waiting out an overlong cache update after all?

**(I, like others, have witnessed the corpses of crossed-out Double Redirects stagnate on DoubleRedirects, bereft, until they finally disappeared via data refresh)  