Template:Purge

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In general this template should not be used. If you find yourself needing to purge pages often for your own editing purposes, you are encouraged to use a user script, like User:Lethosor/purge link.js, to add the feature just for yourself.

This template produces a small icon that, if clicked, clears the page cache and reloads the page to show any changes.

The alt text is in the solitarian dialect of Dwarven: "Orsharkôn thetust-zilir Sebïretost" which means "purge cache" or "Webmaster clear hidden container."

Purpose

For efficiency in service, MediaWiki caches pages. Depending on the exact sequence of actions editors follow, one may view an out-of-date version of a given page. This happens most often on heavily-edited pages and on pages which contain an instance of transclusion.

Purge adds to any page a link that, when clicked, not only reloads the page, but clears the server cache, forcing the page to be completely rendered "from scratch". This is not a one-time solution; generally, editing a page is itself sufficient to purge cache. Rather, it is a measure taken in anticipation of the frequent need to purge.

Usage

{{Purge}}

Output

The code above produces the following, aligned to the far right:

Credit

Icon via The Oxygen Team, KDE;, LGPL <https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html>, via Wikimedia Commons