https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30245
--- Comment #5 from Umherirrender <[email protected]> 2011-08-08 16:55:49 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > > In the mean time concentrate on the better system with push notifications > > with > > JSON or XML that are much easier to parse, much more flexible to change > > contents to add more info. No need to 'fix' a deprecated system. A script > > could > > be written fairly easily to read from this new feed and format an IRC > > message. > Could you point out where to this work on a new system is documented? Sounds like [[mw:Extension:XMLRC]] (or another XMPP Extension). (In reply to comment #3) > The IRC feed is highly fragile and used in a gazillion places. There are > already plans to create a new system that is more push-oriented and not > limited > to cleartext (ie. XML or JSON push notification through something with Jabber, > WebSocket and/or PubSubHubBub. > Atleast for the foundation feed I think changing this would unnecessarily > break > a many bots that sadly are not in very active development. (ie. there's a few > bots that monitor all wikis for log events such as Block, to warn users if > that > blocked user edits another wiki. If the bot would have to resolve localized > SpecialPage names in addition to namespaces that could get tricky, not sure if > that's wanted. Calling the API for each edit on all wikis ? Or get them in > advance from the API. Not sure, but either way I'm not the one who build those > bots.) > In general this is a valid bug and has a valid fix. But I think it's best to > not touch it and instead let the existing bots work and fight the high > vandalism load. There's imho way too few development eyes pointed on the > vandalism problem, existing solutions are dirty at best but is highly depend > on. > In the mean time concentrate on the better system with push notifications with > JSON or XML that are much easier to parse, much more flexible to change > contents to add more info. No need to 'fix' a deprecated system. A script > could > be written fairly easily to read from this new feed and format an IRC message. I am knowing nothing over that bots, and I cannot tell, if this change will break one of that bots. The IRC line has at least one other criteria, which a bot can detect a log entry. Caching the special page aliases once per language and per day/week should not be a high problem. There are sometimes changes, which breaks things, and without that you cannot make your software better. The IRC RC Feed is not official deprecated, please document that in the code, so nobody would waste time for that in the near future. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
