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Bug 8420 - PAGENAME doesn't work on Mediawiki:Sitenotice.
PAGENAME doesn't work on Mediawiki:Sitenotice.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
unspecified
PC Windows XP
: Lowest normal (vote)
: ---
Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
:
: 25487 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2006-12-28 23:46 UTC by
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:05 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description 2006-12-28 23:46:07 UTC
{{PAGENAME}} and other similar magic words doesn't work on Mediawiki:Sitenotice.
Sometimes works well, but ofen gives other page.
Comment 1 2006-12-28 23:46:41 UTC
It occurs on JA:WN.
Comment 2 Brion Vibber 2006-12-29 00:47:24 UTC
Sitenotice is cached pretty aggressively, and will be more so in the future.
It's probably not safe to assume you can get per-page information into the site
notice text.
Comment 3 Aphaia 2006-12-29 06:01:15 UTC
Thank you for your comment, Brion.

So, questions:
* How about putting them [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]?  
* Can we ask you developers to localize "toolbox" on the left column to
including such per-page information? 

It is not necessary to put it on the sitenotice, and even it is safe, it seems
ideal to put per-page function like "cache the page"   into the toolbox to sort
information logically.  
Comment 4 Brion Vibber 2006-12-29 06:14:10 UTC
Huh?
Comment 5 Rob Church 2006-12-29 09:31:35 UTC
The sidebar is also subject to aggressive caching, in fact, one could argue it's
even *more* aggressive than the sitenotice.

The toolbox is generated in the skin code with contextual links relevant to the
page being viewed - special pages, article views, old revisions, etc. all have
different links in the toolbox.

It's not clear exactly what you want us to do.
Comment 6 2006-12-29 21:20:38 UTC
Thak you for your answers.
We'd like to put a "refresh this page" link to the sidebar or sitenotice.
Comment 7 Rob Church 2007-01-08 19:16:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> We'd like to put a "refresh this page" link to the sidebar or sitenotice.

I don't understand what you mean by "refresh this page" in this context; it has
multiple uses when applied to a MediaWiki wiki.

Both the sidebar and sitenotice(s) are cached. This is to save processing time
and help speed up page views. As a result of this caching, magic words such as
{{PAGENAME}} and so forth will not work as usual.

Comment 8 2007-01-08 22:54:55 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> I don't understand what you mean by "refresh this page" in this context; it has
> multiple uses when applied to a MediaWiki wiki.

I meant,
[{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=purge}} refresh this page]
Comment 9 db [inactive,noenotif] 2010-12-03 19:57:42 UTC
*** Bug 25487 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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