https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50785
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Bug ID: 50785
Summary: Unintended job queue lag due to template null edits,
API action=purge
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.22-git
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: JobQueue
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Wikimedia users routinely do null edits when they feel the job queue is not
fast enough for their needs. Unfortunately, null edits of templates cause
refreshLinks jobs to be queued, which exacerbates the problem they were
intending to solve. In the current case, a user null-edited several templates,
causing the equivalent of 22 million page parse operations to be queued.
In a previous case, a user caused permanent job queue lag with a bot which
regularly executed API action=purge with forcelinkupdate=1, not realising that
the updates would be recursive.
I suggest making null edits do only non-recursive link updates, and I suggest
splitting the forcelinkupdate API parameter into forcelinkupdate and
forcerecursivelinkupdate.
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