Manual:Cache

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MediaWiki can cache expensive data queries and page templates to save noticeable time processing web pages.

For wiki users:

How do I purge a cached page?

For system administrators:

Manual:Performance tuning – How to configure your web server and MediaWiki installation to set up relevant caches and improve performance.
- Manual:Configuration settings
- How do I completely disable caching?

For MediaWiki developers in core and extensions:

Manual:Object cache – How to use object caching inside MediaWiki.
- Manual:Parser cache – How the rendered output of a wiki page is cached with ParserCache and how RevisionOutputCache is used for old revisions of a page.
- wikitech:Performance/Guides/Backend performance practices

See also