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Ah ha! We meet again, MediaWiki caching bullshit! It sometimes breaks. Often as a result of upgrade or configuration change or whatever.

If you hit a page as a non-logged-in user that is blank, edit the URL from this...

Code: 
http://www.sonichu.com/cwcki/Some_title_or_other

to this:

Code: 
http://www.sonichu.com/w/index.php?title=Some_title_or_other&action=purge

When you go there, you'll be presented with a form that asks if you really want to purge. Hit OK. The most recent version of the page should appear. No login is necessary.
 
Seems to be working over here. I'll make a note of that for the future. Thanks.
 
WWWWolf said:
Ah ha! We meet again, MediaWiki caching bullshit! It sometimes breaks. Often as a result of upgrade or configuration change or whatever.

If you hit a page as a non-logged-in user that is blank, edit the URL from this...

Code: 
http://www.sonichu.com/cwcki/Some_title_or_other

to this:

Code: 
http://www.sonichu.com/w/index.php?title=Some_title_or_other&action=purge

When you go there, you'll be presented with a form that asks if you really want to purge. Hit OK. The most recent version of the page should appear. No login is necessary.
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I tried with http://www.sonichu.com/w/index.php?title=Father_Call&action=purge and still got a blank page, no form or anything.
 
I can't purge that page, either.

I just tried clearing my cache to see what that would do, and now I can't see any page on the site at all in Chrome. Protip: Don't do that.
The message I sent Champ is still pending reply, so this isn't yet hopeless for you guys. I guess there's some oversight whereby the purge page calls the element that needs to be purged, but as long as you can access the login page (unlike me, currently) a fix should soon be available.
 
Freecell said:
I can't purge that page, either.

I just tried clearing my cache to see what that would do, and now I can't see any page on the site at all in Chrome. Protip: Don't do that.
The message I sent Champ is still pending reply, so this isn't yet hopeless for you guys. I guess there's some oversight whereby the purge page calls the element that needs to be purged, but as long as you can access the login page (unlike me, currently) a fix should soon be available.
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To be fair, I don't really handle the technical stuff on the CWCki, I'll talk to Marvin about it. I do have this problem as well and I don't know how to solve it but I'm sure we'll figure this out.
 
This problem has just extended to what seems to be every page for me. since no page loads I cannot log in to correct it.
 
Mine's fucked now too.
Tried Firefox, Safari, TorBrowser and Opera from four IP addresses in 2 different physical locations.
 
Same here, blank pages.
 
GroundUpSweetheart said:
I tried with http://www.sonichu.com/w/index.php?title=Father_Call&action=purge and still got a blank page, no form or anything.
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I just tried that, and boom, it worked. I guess it won't work every time. I think it might fail if there's lots of stuff in the MW job queue, but I'm not sure.

I think there's a MediaWiki maintenance tool that will blow away all old caches, but that requires command line access to the server to run. (Looks like purgeParserCache.php. Not sure if it's the same thing. MediaWiki's maintenance tools are a little bit of a mess, frankly. Recommend backups, etcetera.)
 
I can now access every page again while not logged in. I'm not aware of anyone having done anything, so maybe it just decided to fix itself. Can anyone else confirm?
 
WWWWolf said:
GroundUpSweetheart said:
I tried with http://www.sonichu.com/w/index.php?title=Father_Call&action=purge and still got a blank page, no form or anything.
Click to expand...

I just tried that, and boom, it worked. I guess it won't work every time. I think it might fail if there's lots of stuff in the MW job queue, but I'm not sure.

I think there's a MediaWiki maintenance tool that will blow away all old caches, but that requires command line access to the server to run. (Looks like purgeParserCache.php. Not sure if it's the same thing. MediaWiki's maintenance tools are a little bit of a mess, frankly. Recommend backups, etcetera.)
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I'm still getting some blank pages, but after seeing this post purging is working for me.
 
If you're still having an issue with pages loading, either purge your cache for sonichu.com or use the suggested link format above.
It's working 100% for me now.
 
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