https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11
--- Comment #29 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to TeleComNasSprVen from comment #28) > (In reply to James Forrester from comment #27) > > (In reply to John Mark Vandenberg from comment #25) > > > > VisualEditor requests the existence status of each of the links on the page > > and sets them to be red or otherwise based on this status; the same styling > > can be calculated server-side and returned as an API call (without > > client-side Javascript), which means that this can work for all users, and > > extending the status checking to other MediaWiki instances in the same farm > > (or even further afield) is a relatively simple extension of this principle. > > Can the checks be feasibly done without placing too much load and > performance worry on the servers? As someone noted above, even if some of > the work was offloaded to cache such querying would already put a strain on > the servers. Sure; caching the state of the pages is already inside the API cluster's bailiwick, and this would just be a (large) client load on that. It's almost certainly feasible, albeit we may need to bump up the API cluster a little. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
