Module:Purge/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Module:Purge
It may contain usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original module page.

This Lua module is used in system messages.
Changes to it can cause immediate changes to the Wikibooks user interface.
To avoid major disruption, any changes should be tested in the module's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own module sandbox. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Please discuss changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This module produces a link to purge a page's cache. This is usually the current page, but can be another page.

Usage

From wiktext

From wikitext, this module should be accessed via Template:Purge. Please see the template page for documentation.

From Lua

From Lua, first you need to load the module:

local mPurge = require('Module:Purge')

Then you can create purge links with the _main function:

mPurge._main(args)

args is a table of arguments, identical to the ones accepted by Template:Purge. Please see the template documentation for more details.