Two Yeah things might be happening.

Try opening the page with the red link in a private/incognito mode tab to
check if it is your  browser caching or the server.

second try running runjobs.php and ensuring that its just not a queue issue

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Emanuele D'Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> quick intro: I have been a mediawiki user for a long time (wikipedia and
> within companies) but I only had a couple of stints at administering one. I
> am in the process of setting one up for my neighborhood - or about 65
> families.
>
> It pretty much all works but as my neighbors includes anything from very
> hightech people to very lowtech grandpas I have to put extra-care in making
> sure there are no counter-intuitive things happening.
>
> One of the counter-intuitive things that -is- happening is that when I
> create a new page from a pre-existing redlink the link does not become blue
> until I use the /purge action in the URL. I checked with showJobs.php and
> the job to update the page's cache is there. Somehow however, the jobs do
> not get triggered. I.e. as $wgJobRunRate is set to the default (1), every
> http request should take one job off the queue, right? But I'm not seeing
> this. It seems like the queue just gets longer.
>
> I'm wondering, is this perhaps something that has to do with short urls?
> (they are otherwise functional) Or anything else in my .htaccess? It just
> seems like mediawiki doesn't see some page reloads or some newly created
> pages as enough to trigger the jobs queue to move forward.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Manu
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