Brion Vibber wrote:
Benjamin Lees wrote:
Bah! That was a depressing one-line fix that never got applied. :)
Applied now to trunk:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/42796
Read-only mode has been repurposed from the original
"nothing must write to the database" to "users should not
be able to edit or alter anything user-visible".
wfReadOnly() wasn't preventing db writes by the article counter and some
other stuff so preventing objectcache writes was a bit inconsistent.