User:Joe's Null Bot



There are a number of strange and occasionally problematic caching behaviors in MediaWiki related to template-based conditional categorization and the like, places where updates don't percolate the way you'd hope, particularly if the "update" is merely passing some point in time where a conditional suddenly goes from one answer to another. See and   and.

These can be worked around with a full null edit, but more efficiently with a special WP:PURGE with the rarely observed  "forcelinkupdate" option.

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Recent changes:
 * Modified 20 May 2016 to use SSL interface, as WMF expects to disable HTTP API access on 12 June 2016.
 * Migrated 27 December 2016 to run on Tool Labs rather than my own server

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