Terra Invicta Official Wiki:Tips for editors
This page is a reference of information that editors of this wiki might find useful.
Page Caching
This wiki uses quite a lot of modules and templates to autogenerate and update lists and pages. Due to this, page caches might need to be actively refreshed (purged) to show changes promptly.
This is most commonly needed when data references for table/page generation have been recently updated (usually game file CSVs after an update), or if you want to check any changes you have made to a page that is not updating promptly.
Purging
You can enter any page into Special:Purge to do this, but with pages you already have loaded, it can be more convenient to just append ...?action=purge to the active page address in your browser window.
Example
This page's address with the purge action added to the end:
- https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Terra_Invicta/Terra_Invicta_Official Wiki:Tips_for_editors?action=purge[1]
Notes
- Purging just forces a cache refresh that would eventually happen naturally (sometimes not until a page edit commit); check your changes, but don't worry much about breaking anything in the long-term.
- Purging can both correct inconsistencies across pages and also make them worse. Good practice is to also purge pages updated from a shared source or if referencing the one you are purging.
- If purging pages that are data references for site-wide modules/templates that also use other data references, try and make sure any related reference pages are updated as well.
Namespaces
Project:
This namespace ("Terra Invicta Official Wiki:") is the local wiki name for the standard MediaWiki "Project:" namespace, and as such is interchangeable.
