Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:28:18 UTC
I was viewing the English Wikipedia page on "Tungsten", and noticed a minor vandalism. When I clicked on "Edit" to fix the problem, it didn't show up, and looking at the page history indicated that the vandalism had been fixed a day and a half earlier, with two edits taking place since, neither of which showed up in the article until I reloaded the page. I've noticed numerous cases of the main page being up to three days out of date -- it happens about half the time when I view the page -- but I'd just put it down to my web browser using a cached version when it shouldn't. But this time, it happened on a page I've never viewed before.
(In reply to comment #0) Since this report, there have been various changes made to the control of browser and proxy caching, and to the caching infrastructure at the Wikimedia sites. But from the description and lack of other reports, a bad or over-aggressively caching proxy between you and the Wikipedia site seems to be the most likely cause. When did this last occur? What browser and intermediary proxies were used? Logged-in or anonymous?
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > Since this report, there have been various changes made to the control of > browser and proxy caching, and to the caching infrastructure at the Wikimedia sites. > > But from the description and lack of other reports, a bad or over-aggressively > caching proxy between you and the Wikipedia site seems to be the most likely cause. > > When did this last occur? What browser and intermediary proxies were used? > Logged-in or anonymous? It hasn't happened in a long time, I think since a week or two after I filed the bug report. As far as I'm aware, my ISP (Comcast cable) doesn't use a caching proxy. It only happened while I was logged in, but I almost never browse Wikipedia while logged out.
Resolving as WORKSFORME.
