>    "Don't change the HTML in incompatible ways" is probably a good
>general rule to live by

Not necessarily - I've only read your summary and not looked into what
happened in depth, but the issue seems to have occurred from changing
the CSS [and possibly js] in a non backwards compatible way. Changing
the HTML didn't really matter.

>but having an easy way to say "start purging
>all pages on $theseWikis from Squid/Varnish" would also be nice.

That sounds like something that could hurt the server kitties unless
done rather slowly [at least for enwiki]...

-bawolff

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