After fighting with MediaWiki for a while, I finally figured out how to disable all forms of page caching so that it actually hands over the latest version of a given page when I ask for it.

To disable caching (including memcached) add the following lines to your LocalSettings.php file:

## Disable all forms of MediaWiki caching $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE; $wgMessageCacheType = CACHE_NONE; $wgParserCacheType = CACHE_NONE; $wgCachePages = false;

You probably already have the $wgMainCacheType line, so just add the other three lines if you need those.

As a side note, you should make these changes in LocalSettings.php rather than in DefaultSettings.php (as some have recommended). DefaultSettings.php should not be edited, and is there just to give you a list of all of the available settings and their default values.

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