https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15434

--- Comment #70 from Nemo <[email protected]> ---
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crontabs on the maintenance server terbium, including the new ones for this bug

So, this bug can now hopefully be considered (mostly) fixed, with its current
summary, after mutante approved and fixed the change above.
In detail, the special pages 1) AncientPages, 2) DeadendPages, 3) MostLinked,
4) MostRevisions, 5) WantedPages, 6) FewestRevisions will be updated twice a
year on every wiki as follows:
a) page 1) in 1st and 7th month of the year, page 2) in 2nd and 8th month etc.,
b) starting at 1 UTC on each of the days from the 11th to the 17th of the
month, where on the 11th are the wikis on database s1, on 12nd s2 etc. as
listed on https://noc.wikimedia.org/dbtree/ .
(You can see the crontabs attached, as provided by mutante.) In short we should
first see DeadendPages (which is among the slowest) updated for en.wiki on
August 11, on it.wiki, pl.wiki etc. the next day and so on.

The next steps, in order, are:
1) keep an eye on the first updates to see whether they are successful and if
they overload the servers too much, in which case they may be disabled;
2) if all goes well, make the frequency higher or much higher, e.g. monthly (as
Tim put it, "If they don't break the site, then why not run them every week?"),
or decide that this is enough;
3) try and add updates for the pages disabled only on en.wiki, fr.wiki and
perhaps wikidata (see
<https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/operations%2Fmediawiki-config.git/351a084f4a26fc7daeeccadedba48706f251664a/wmf-config%2FInitialiseSettings.php#L9308>).
This bug should be kept open at least till (1), so for a couple weeks more; 2-3
may be split to other bugs, but ideally we'll be more confident with testing,
they'll follow in short order and we'll be able to close this bug to our
complete satisfaction.


The queries will happen against the new databases in Ashburn, if I understand
correctly, so let's thank (and wish in) the power of the new datacentre. Kudos
to all the WMF people who helped transform my rough proposal in something real,
including mutante, Reedy, Asher Feldman, Peter Youngmeister, Tim Starling,
Ariel Glenn.

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