Wikinews:Water cooler/technical/archives/2017/March

"Purge" button
I have an old preference saying " Add a "*" tab to the top of the page which lets you purge the cache of the page. " The "*" (asterisk) tab, which supposedly reset the cache, either no longer works or is no longer there. Right now, I have clickable icons indicating to refresh pages, especially in Wikinews Main Page and Newsroom. A clock button enabled via user's preference is nice, but I've also often used "Purge" button for any page. I want to take this to the "proposal" subpage, but seems to me that it's a technical issue also. Change to " Add a "Purge" option to the top of the page, which purges the page's cache ", shown in multiple sister projects? That way, the "Purge" button issue is fixed. --George Ho (talk) 00:05, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'm not quite following. Are you saying that gadget doesn't work right so we should replace it with... something?  --Pi zero (talk) 01:01, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes. But I'll rephrase concisely: The "*" preference thing doesn't work because "*" is no longer there. The other sister projects replaced "*" with the "Purge" button. Replacement may be needed, i.e. "purge", but it can be accessible via preference and the "More" scroll, which has the "Rename". I'll rephrase further if you want. --George Ho (talk) 02:34, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Unless I'm mistaken, the Gadget is still here: Special:Preferences. Are you saying that you have this option checked and it is still not working? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:42, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Re-checked my "Preferences" page: the option is checkmark-ed, and the gadget is still not working. --George Ho (talk) 02:45, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Alternatively, you can remove the defunct "*" tab option without replacement as there is the clock purge link already in the "Gadgets" tab of Preferences menu. Nevertheless, having a replacement would have been better, but I think I might be fine without a replacement for now. --George Ho (talk) 00:30, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Almost a month later, what to do about the broken gadget, especially when checkmarked? --George Ho (talk) 00:36, 4 March 2017 (UTC)