Forum:Time delay for templates to update

I have noticed on Gearspedia that templates no longer instantly update when something is changed. For example, Template:Gears of War series is changed, but all the pages that included that template do not show the changes for several hours. Refreshing my browsers cachge does not change this. Removing the template from a page and then re-adding it (in two edits) causes the template to display the changes. Can anybody shed light on this, and is this happening on any other wikis? --EightyOne (talk) 12:34, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * A null edit (click edit, click save, make no changes) should update any templates on articles. I don't see anything strange on your job queue length, so I can only really put it down to caching at the moment. Is this happening all the time? 16:42, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * It happens all the time, although the length of time taken to update varies considerably (it has been almost 24 hours on one occasion). It never used to happen however, it just started doing it one day about a month to two months ago. I wondered if it could have something to do with the MediaWiki upgrade?--EightyOne (talk) 22:24, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * On fr.guildwars it has always been like that. Isn't it supposed to be the intended behavior ? I mean, maybe not when it takes days to update but generally the caching is a lot more slow to update on Wikia than on any wiki not part of a wiki farm.
 * If you browse this forum, you'll find tons of topic where people are asking about this. Some are asking about templates, some others about images/files and a few others about the main page.
 * On my part, i learned to let it be. What is so important that things update right away ? I would now only complain if it still not updated the next week. Or, even there, i could just use a bot to make them update somehow if i really want them to.
 * I tend to put ?action=purge a lot at the end of URLs when working on something though. But any way we ask the server to purge it's cache is more or less of a bad thing to do so we should only do it when we think it's really important. — TulipVorlax 11:04, 2 June 2009 (UTC)