https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33455

--- Comment #3 from Bawolff <[email protected]> 2012-01-01 12:36:37 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> I did not realize this. But we agree that this makes WantedFiles completely
> unusable?

Heck, just the sheer number of false positives make it totally useless

> 
> I understand that the queries are expensive. I also guess that mediawiki, due
> to its excellent page caching has no mechanism for caching database query
> results, correct? Such consistency queries could, from a user standpoint,
> easily be updated only once a day, but then fully. Provided it is shown
> transparently how old the results are. But I understand that this would need a
> new infrastructure.

We actually do cache the queries and not just the output on to the page (in the
querycache table). The total number of results cached is controlled by
[[mw:manual:$wgQueryCacheLimit]]. Special:wantedfiles should also have the line
on it:

The following information is cached, and was last updated 16:04, 31 December
2011. 

To indicate how outdated the info is.

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