-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:06 PM, WODUP <wikiwo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The article says "The most notable instance of this was on the night Barack >> Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry >> disappeared for nearly an hour - to be replaced with the one-line entry, >> "Barack Obama is the new SOCIALIST President of the United States of >> America."", but the closest I could find was this >> edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=249916284&oldid=prev>that >> lasted for about one minute. I wonder what she saw. > > It's possible that she didn't refresh, that her browser was dumb, or > that mediawiki's purge of the front end cache was lost and anons saw > an old version for longer. (The last of these is not likely but it is > possible— but every edit is another chance for the caches to get clued > in... so in that case user error still seems likely) > > Perhaps we should have a "Wikipedia for reporters" page which details > things like how to check how long some particular edit persisted. > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > I like the idea "Wikipedia for reports", perhaps a very small link on the main page.
Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklO91AACgkQ6+ro8Pm1AtV4dACgnzS6DJjTdfz1GoaF+a+CY8ho broAnjVZtVJwGUuK9Jmv1bsrfax7kx6h =V8kS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l