https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43287

--- Comment #7 from Max Semenik <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> I agree that the size of the queue was not directly relevant to editors. But
> turning your comment on its head, I would say that editors deserve to know
> about likely propagation delays (per comment #4), and that the obscurity of
> the
> API (from most editors' perspective) means that it would have been far better
> if [[Special:Statistics]] had added this additional information instead of
> removing the little information that it used to expose about the queue.

One of reasons this number was considered misleading was that for performance
reasons queue size is estimated, not counted. And these estimations can be
wildly inaccurate. This will remain an issue at least as long as the queue is
kept in MySQL.

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