[Mediawiki-l] Caching is making me crazy...

Tue Mar 1 21:44:12 UTC 2005

On 28 Feb 2005, at 10:58, Rowan Collins wrote:

> The point is, this is a chicken-and-egg problem - if the page is being
> read from cache, there is no way of knowing whether or not it contains
> an extension tag, or any other feature. It is logically impossible to
> determine whether to parse something as part of the process of parsing
> it.

I suggested a specific namespace, and asked for comments, and got a big 
yawn.

It seems to me one could subclass Article or something so that the 
namespace "Dynamic:" would never be cached, for example.

I ask again: comments?

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