Yep... we hear from people who want them (and review them) daily ... and from others for whom it's not as critical. We think the new way of getting this data will help us keep balance. :)
Thanks, Q. Jamie Hari wrote: > To be honest, > > We don't need these daily. They simply don't provide enough > granularity to be useful on a daily basis. > Even weekly might be overkill. > > Slow the crons down and save Wikia some CPU cycles. I rather see those > cycles up front on a Squid! ;) > > If you still really want these stats that much, I suggest setting up a > new slave with a low synch speed. > (Obviously it won't matter if this slave is a few minutes/hours behind) > Slow the cron down to a weekly or bi-weekly run, instead of daily. > > Heck.. (en) Wikipedia hasn't been able to successfully complete a > stats-run in months! > Anyone who uses these stats for anything half-way important... should > probably reconsider. > > > My 3 cents, > (2 cents Canadian. hahaha!) > > -- > Jamie Hari > Editor-in-Chief > Marvel & DC Database Projects > > > > On 12/2/07, *JohnQ* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi Robin... thanks for letting me know. Looking into it. > > As background, processing stats on a daily basis takes a fair > amount of > computing power... first, we dump the full db every day (which we'll > continue to do for backup purposes)... then we run a MediaWiki > program > that calcs the stats. This whole process has been taking over 24 hours > to complete... at which point our cron job to calc the stats starts up > again. We're looking at ways to alternate processes and locations... > which would be a short-term solution... but we're hoping to release a > new way of calc'ing the stats that accesses a backup db directly > rather > than working through the db dumps. > > Anyway... thanks again for pointing that one out... I'll have the > guys > take a look. > John Q. > > > > > Robin Forlonge Patterson wrote: > > http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm > <http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm> > > is dated Feb 14. The same link gave me a fairly > > up-to-date version a few days ago, although I > > noticed that there were more blank cells athan > > usual. Is this a known problem? > > > > [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, > > 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, > > New Zealand > > Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 > > http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp <http://wc.rootsweb.com/%7Erobinp> > > And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free > > cooperative MediaWiki site > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikia-l mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
