User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/New Page and Article Headers: Official Release Date/@comment-24258073-20170614070804/@comment-23865-20170614102151

So... I've said this before in here, but... Every time you need to do ?action=purge (whether it's manually or through a click) that means most probably we made a mistake somewhere*.

Your wikis should show you up-to-date pages whenever something changes without the need for you, the admin, or any other user to go and manually trigger a refresh (purge). I know that in our world that's sort of been the normal procedure whenever a page is "stale", and then it's fine, but really & truly -- please let us know whenever your page is not showing up to date content, and the steps you took before that happened.

If you do, that lets us fix the issue for you and everybody else.

I'd like to live in a wiki world where "purge" is no longer needed, ever. I hope you do to. And yes, it's going to take a while to get there.

But we can't get there without you telling us where the problems are and showing examples.

* ) note that there is a slim chance that this is not technically "us" making a mistake but rather a result of how you're using wikitext -- but even then we'd like to fix that if we can.