Thank you for your responses folks. The script is a gaget [1], loaded
and unloaded through the preferences.

Regards,
   Strainu

[1] https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-wikidata-description.js

În lun., 4 apr. 2022 la 04:20, Krinkle <krin...@fastmail.com> a scris:
>
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2022, at 17:57, Strainu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've recently seen some complaints from 2 users located in the same country 
> that it takes about half a day for the Javascript changes to propagate. Users 
> from different countries but similar user rights don't seem to have this 
> problem.
>
> Is it possible to have different cache invalidation rules for different 
> countries? If not, what else could cause this behavior?
>
>
> It depends on what kind of changes and to what piece of JavaScript code.
>
> My guess would be that this is a change not to deployed software or gadgets 
> or site scripts, but a user script. And that the user script is loaded by URL 
> via importScriptURI or mw.loader.load. And that the URL is non-standard (e.g. 
> not exactly /w/index.php?title=..&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript, but with 
> other parameters or different order or different encoding). This means that 
> it is not purged on edits.
>
> In that case, it will stay cached. It might then be that someone near one 
> data center is lucky that the URL is not used there before and sees no cache. 
> Or that near another data center the URL is not popular enough to stay in the 
> CDN and thus falls out before the 7 day expiry despite no observed edit or 
> purge.
>
> To know for sure, I would need to see the specific script edit and how the 
> script is loaded.
>
> -- Krinkle
>
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