Don't get it

"Historical data" never worked with the Factbox, now it only ensures the users doesn't take it for granted by displaying a message.

If you are still not sure as to what and how $smwgFactboxUseCache is used (I think the description is quite clear namely to lower latency when Factbox content needs to is parsed), just use the legacy setting (false) and the Factbox build will be executed on each page request whether the content has changed or not.

For some idea about cache vs. non-cached, see [1].

[1] https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/commit/5a82da8316bba059da047912e94197a3b9496828

James Hong Kong (talk)

I have set this variable to true and false. Both ways, I get "Historical data can not be displayed in a Factbox" when I edit a page and nothing at all when I create it.

I am still not sure I have managed to communicate what I try to achieve. I want the factbox to be displayed in the bottom of the page after I press the "Show preview" button (action=submit), based only on the parsed wikitext, without the page's even needing to exist ($smwgShowFactboxEdit = SMW_FACTBOX_NONEMPTY did it, I presume), just as it was in SMW 1.8.

Anyway, I look at http://semantic-mediawiki.org/doc/Factbox_8php_source.html, line 244, and see that the message about historical data is shown every time there is an oldid in POST or GET parametres, regardless of any configuration settings. This makes clear why there is a message "Historical...' but not why there is no factbox.

Alexander Mashin^talk

Now I understand, try to replace $this->context->getRequest()->getCheck( 'oldid' ) with $this->context->getRequest()->getInt( 'oldid' )

James Hong Kong (talk)

Thank you, the factbox reappeared when I upgraded to 1.9.1. Looks like the issue was already addressed.

Alexander Mashin^talk