Last modified: 2009-08-21 19:06:12 UTC
Created attachment 6102 [details] Screenshot showing wrong date
I'm a retard apparently. I thought I was just committing the attachment, but I apparently committed the whole bug, without entering anything. Anyway, the problem is that the Today's Featured Article system seems to think it is still Tuesday, May 5, 2009 23:29 UTC, which is clearly incorrect. This is a problem, because I subscribe to the RSS feed, and it is quite annoying to not be getting anything new. In the screenshot, you can see what I'm talking about by looking right above the calendars to where it says the date, then looking down in the bottom right of the image at my system date, which shows the correct date.
That page probably hasn't been refreshed recently; try purging your browser cache or null-editing the page. Pages being out-of-date is a known WMF issue that is an unavoidable side-effect of our extensive caching cascade. This is not a MediaWiki issue.
I tried purging the cache, and refreshing, but still the same result. I don't know what you mean by null-editing, but try out this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/2009 yourself. But the wrong date on that page is just a symptom of the problem. Check out http://jeays.net/wikipedia/featured.xml. That is the RSS feed to which I subscribe, and it also thinks that it is still May 5th. So obviously something in the back end that is supplying both of those pages with the date is incorrect. BTW, I am using Firefox 3.0.10 on Windows XP, if that helps in the troubleshooting.
Null editing is clicking the "edit" button, then saving the page without making any changes. Loading the page worked correctly first-time for me; it displays "May 11" immediately for me. Even if there is an issue with the coding of the background templates on that page, this is not a MediaWiki issue.
Looks like a MediaWiki issue to me. Caches for pages which include date magic words should expire after a day, if they don't, that's a bug.
It worked correctly for me when logged in; when logged out, as the reporter says, it showed May 5. Doing action=purge on the page (while logged in) fixed the problem. Note that the template that has the date magic words is not the one linked to -- it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:TodaysFABar2009 which is transcluded by [[Wikipedia:Today's featured article/2009]] There was not an out-of-date cache on that page when I looked at it logged out.
Bump. Just wanted to see if anyone was still looking into this. It's been over a month, and the today's featured article feature still says it's May 5 (apparently only for logged off users, like myself). Like I said before, that is not only on the page shown in the screenshot, but also for the RSS feed (http://jeays.net/wikipedia/featured.xml). Try logging off from wikipedia and accessing the RSS feed (though I don't know if being logged onto wikipedia would have any effect on the rss feed...).
So, has anyone been working on this? If not, is there somewhere else I can go for support? Or, is there a working RSS Feed out there somewhere that I can use, that actually has the correct date?
The page looks fixed to me: Today is Friday, August 21, 2009; it is now 18:45 UTC http://jeays.net/ is not under wikimedia control.
Your right, Platonides, it does look like the date magic (at least that which is supporting the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/2009 page) has been fixed. I just assumed that since the rss feed still wasn't working, that hadn't been fixed yet either. Thanks to whoever fixed it. I guess now I need to email the webmaster of the jeays.net site and see if he can fix his rss feed.
