-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ilmari Karonen: > In principle, it should also be possible to make a true live Wikimedia > edit counter: all you'd need to do is subscribe to the IRC RecentChanges > feed and condense it down to some suitably low-bandwidth, low-latency > format for transmitting to the browser. I'm not sure how practical that > would be with plain old AJAX, though (you really don't want to make a > new request for every edit), but Java or Flash or something like that > ought to handle it fine.
I did something similar to this in JS alone: <http://toolserver.org/~river/recentchanges/> It requires 1 request per second to update, but the backend is a C++ FastCGI and the database query is trivial, so the requests create no noticeable load. I imagine it should be fairly simple to do something similar for a plain number-of-edits counter. (You would only need to return number of edits, rather than the edits themselves, so a little less bandwidth would be used.) - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (HP-UX) iEYEARECAAYFAkvEBeMACgkQIXd7fCuc5vLMSACgu1i+bfsnjUP1rhewWExYOSEw 30UAnAlRujCmgqu8W0ZLt1TxG/RFMYVR =OhUA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
