On 03.11.2013, 0:05 jeph wrote: > Hi, > As part of the visualisation tool I'm building I'm fetching the > parsed revisions of an article. When the article is of a > considerable size , eg latest revisions of Barack Obama it takes 10+ > seconds. As the tool is interactive and it shows the edits made to > an article as an animation the time taken by the server does not > bode well. (The requests are only read )
> I'm currently not making parallel requests. What would a reasonable > degree of parallel requests. Are there other ways to get around this latency > issue ? > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits talks about the tool > and the project. Parsing is an extremely slow operation, so I don't think that making parallel requests would be wise - please use dumps <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dumps>. -- Best regards, Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
