Aryeh Gregor wrote: > Any given image is not included on every single page on the wiki. > Purging a few thousand pages from Squid on an image reupload (should > be rare for such a heavily-used image) is okay. Purging every single > page on the wiki is not. > > yea .. we are just talking about adding image.jpg?image_revision_id to all the image src at page render time should never purge everything on the wiki ;) > No. We don't purge Squid on these events, we just let people see old > copies. Of course, this doesn't normally apply to registered users > (who usually [always?] get Squid misses), or to pages that aren't > cached (edit, history, . . .). > oky thats basically what I understood. That makes sense.. although it would be nice to think about a job or process that purges pages with outdated language msg, or pages that are referencing outdated scripts, style-sheet, or image urls.
We ~do~ add jobs to purge for template updates. Are other things like language msg & code updates candidates for job purge tasks? ... I guess its not too big a deal to get an old page until someone updates it. --michael _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
