Yes, so probably our issues here are the lack of coordination of bot owners and
memory usage issue. Shouldn't we write some simple script which can
automatically remove old memory used by the interwiki script? DaB's idea was
okay for me, just that one of the points was that no one else can run the
interwiki script anymore, which is ridiculous to me.
Maybe the MMP can be used to ensure that there is no overlapping bots? All
interwiki bot owners should join this project, check an available wiki that no
one has taken up and start asking for clearance to run their own interwiki bot
there.
Regards,
Hydriz
> From: valhall...@arctus.nl
> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:19:19 +0100
> To: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] interwiki.py
>
> 2012/1/16 Hydriz Wikipedia <ad...@wikisorg.tk>:
> > Personally, I rather we wait for the Pywikipedia devs to fix that script,
>
> This is not going to happen anytime soon. Considering the state of the
> code base (two hundred exceptions for three hunderd wikis, long
> functions and no automated testing - and thus practically untestable),
> and the state of the InterLanguage extension ('will be installed
> soon'), so-one is really willing to invest a lot of time in tracking
> memory usage and reducing it.
>
> The only reasonable action we can take to reduce the memory
> consumption is to let the OS do its job in freeing memory: using one
> process to track pages that have to be corrected (using the database,
> if possible), and one process to do the actual fixing (interwiki.py).
> This should be reasonably easy to implement (i.e. use a pywikibot page
> generator to generate a list of pages, use a database layer to track
> interlanguage links and popen('interwiki.py <page>') if this is a
> fixable situation)
>
> Best,
> Merlijn
>
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