Hi all; The counter page is generated every 5 minutes, using the last data available in site_stats table for every wiki project. So, the editrate can change every 5 minutes, I think that it is a good estimation.
Regards! [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Site_stats_table 2010/4/13 Peter Körner <[email protected]> > Cool thing! > > We need sth. similar for OSM! :) > > Peter > > > River Tarnell schrieb: > > 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/<http://toolserver.org/%7Eriver/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.) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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