Thread:Gen. Grievous1138/@comment-31735895-20170416234832/@comment-25330335-20170418025001

If anyone is interested, when you save the source, the mediawiki server running on wikia.com stores the page as a part of the database that is this wiki. When a user requests the page, the source is parsed by a complicated bit of PHP which turns it into HTML that can be viewed. It's really quite fascinating. That's why it takes longer to load a page right after you've edited it than any other time; Because the HTML is cached on the server so that it can send it to you without having to run the parser again.