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Found a weird bug on the UESP wiki...when I go to the Skyrim: Enchanting page, scroll down to the "Optimizing" section and hit the section edit button, it brings up an old version of the section for editing. Hit "show changes", and you'll see that what must be upwards of 20 good edits have been reverted. Any idea why that's happening?

I don't quite know why it's happening, but I think its a caching problem - the solution is to create an account. An IP regularly gets old versions of pages, accounts always get the newest version. If it is the caching problem its quite a well-known issue. I say this because logged in I get the newest version, logged out I get similar to what you described.

I guess it might well be a caching issue...hitting refresh on the edit page actually did update it to the latest version, so perhaps it's because I'd previously edited that specific sub-page. It's odd that being logged in fixes the issue, if it indeed does (I haven't been able to confirm as at the moment I'm getting the latest version, whether logged in or not). I was editing without an account when the problem occurred, though.

Logging into an account solves a lot of caching related issues the IP's suffer from, its a drawback of the squid caching system in use - but it keeps the server costs smaller than a normal server set up (thats what google says anyhow). I'd recommend an account for anyone thats going to make a few edits anyway.

Just to be safe, I've purged the pages cache.
As for you Kiz, if you haven't already done this, go into My Preferences->Gadgets and check next to "Add page and user options to drop-down menus on the toolbar.". That should give you the options to purge the page on all servers that it's on. That way, you can fix cache issues in the future.