Forum:Cascading template changes

We at PathfinderWiki are redoing our naming conventions for several heavily referenced pages. These "real world" product pages are linked to directly many times from "in-world" POV articles in the form of citations. I've edited the citation template to link (and display) the new article title instead of the old one with a redirect, but it doesn't look like the change is cascading through to the pages where the citation template appears. Is there a way to kick the wiki and jostle all the pages to refresh their templates? -- yoda8myhead 01:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Simple answer, no.
 * But in reality, there is.
 * If you dont mind going to each page and ad ?action=purge at the end of each URL (then enter) OR going to every page clic edit then save without any changes.
 * On wikis, it's normal that pages wich include some templates dont update right away when thoses templates are changed. For each modified template, the pages that include them are put in a processing queue.
 * But here is the diffenrence of Wikia wikis over normal wikis; in normal wikis the queue is slowly processed each time someone access a page on the wiki, on Wikia, they've removed that behavior so the queue is process when the site servers are less loaded by visitors resquests.
 * Or, at least, i think it's like that.
 * — TulipVorlax 09:02, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. So if I understand correctly, the changes will be processed on their own when the processing queue has time, or I can force it by either purging or editing the pages?  If that's the case, I think I'll wait on the queue. --yoda8myhead 14:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * The processing queue referred to is also known as the job queue, see also job queue length at Special:Statistics
 * Just what triggers the discharge of jobs from that queue is a mystery. When I've enquired in the past I've been told that the policy was changing to optimize the performance of all wikia hosted communities and that no fixed schedule could be committed to. So the ?action=purge trick is your best bet for now. najevi 16:49, 1 July 2009 (UTC)