Weekly updates would be fine with me. Even monthly if it makes a noticeable difference.
[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 And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site ----- Original Message ----- From: "JohnQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Central Wikia Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] Wikistats reverting to Valentine's Day version? > 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/TablesWik iaGENEALOGY.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 _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
