Forum:Refresh?

why there's a refresh button on every article? --Kunoichi101 (talk) 02:16, March 8, 2012 (UTC)kunoichi101Kunoichi101 (talk) 02:16, March 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * It's to force an update on semantic stuff if I'm not mistaken. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 02:43, March 8, 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't see anything like that on my end. --Speysider Talk Page 13:57, October 22, 2012 (UTC)

Obviously it was removed. —
 * Too bad. It was useful. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:16, October 22, 2012 (UTC)


 * Not really... You can achieve the same effects by doing a purge and or hard refresh
 * @Omni: You are an admin, so you can add it if you want. —
 * same effects, i don't think it's interesting. after all, it's gone althought i'm not an admin. Kunoichi101 (talk) 01:57, October 23, 2012 (UTC)Kunoichi101
 * i don't like it the refresh button on every articles, kinda make me displease. Kunoichi101 (talk) 22:02, October 23, 2012 (UTC)Kunoichi101

The feature as I know it, and as I see it in other wikis, is merely another option in the drop down menu which appears when you click the arrow to edit an article. We have edit, history and rename, the refresh would simply be another one. I'd add it if I knew how. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:46, October 23, 2012 (UTC)

Add importScriptPage('PurgeButton/code.js', 'dev'); to MediaWiki:Common.js. As simple as that. —

Reason about Refresh
give me a reason... about refresh. do we really need it? i want to know why. Kunoichi101 (talk) 00:56, October 27, 2012 (UTC)Kunoichi101
 * Basically, that's a way to make changes appear faster in infoboxes. If a change is made to a page that is reflected in an infobox somewhere else, refreshing the article in which said change would appear "forces" the infobox to update. Sometimes, it can also be used to correct a few things in certain infoboxes. More than once, I came across manga characters having movie and game techniques being displayed in their infoboxes, or missing anime-only or manga-only tags in the jutsu list. Refresh makes fixing that faster. Without it, I'd have to load the article in source more, just so I can press publishing without making a change. Refresh does that with a single click, and a single page load. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 01:14, October 27, 2012 (UTC)