Wikipedia talk:Purge

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Question: should this page be moved to the Wikipedia namespace? I see that some pages are in the Help space, such as Help:Starting a new page, Help:Template, etc. but would this be better in the Wikipedia space along with pages such as Wikipedia:Article size, Wikipedia:Redirect, Wikipedia:Categorization, etc? Robert 21:57, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

• I think that would be a good idea. Courtland 03:47, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I moved it. If anyone has a problem with it, let me know. Robert 22:51, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

I see no problems here. Good work! --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 23:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm wondering if this actually belongs in mediawiki space (i.e. m:Purge, a page which does not exist) as it appears to be a mediawiki function and not one specific to wikipedia. For instance, see the "How do I purge cached pages?" section of the MediaWiki FAQ. User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purge tab

Can there be a tab for purging the current page on top, alongside "article", "discussion", "edit this page", etc.? Either by default or is there code for placing it in the user's CSS file? --Geopgeop 07:14, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I found just that. See Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Add purge to tabs. See Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts for instructions. Note that you must import the code on the purge source page. Don't copy the purge source or change that page. Will (Talk - contribs) 06:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image thumbnail purge instructions confusing

Could someone please revise/rewrite the instructions for purging images, for example, using a stepwise format (1., 2., 3., ...)? I'm having trouble getting a thumbnail to display, and I'm not sure I'm following the instructions correctly. Robert K S 19:22, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How to purge

The instructions say to add &action=purge to the url. This doesn't work. If you want to purge Main Page, you have to change "/wiki/Main_Page" to "/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=purge". Also, it tells you to add {{purge}} to the page. But saving it automatically refreshes the page. You should click "Preview" instead of "Save", then click the purge link, or make a just dummy edit (like adding a space) to the page. --67.121.126.160 02:53, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

If you enter the URL in the form http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article then to purge it you add

?action=purge, thus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article?action=purge.

Or you can do

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=article&action=purge.

69.140.164.142 04:24, 3 April 2007 (UTC)