| kaldari reopened this task as "Open". kaldari added a comment. |
Reopening this. We merged a new config variable (4 years ago) to let us turn off autopatrol logging on Wikidata, but we never actually turned it off, AFAICT. The logging table on wikidata now has over 600 million entries and we can't add new logging functionality (T12331) for fear of making it worse. The decision to move patrolling records from recentchanges to revision may or may not be a good idea, but it's been 3 years since folks signed off on that and we haven't done it yet. There also doesn't seem to be much momentum on making all the other changes to revision that have been proposed (T161671), so I'm guessing this isn't going to happen any time soon. At this point, we need to fish or cut bait rather than letting our tech debt block needed improvements. My suggestion would be to finish what we started and turn off autopatrol logging on wikidata (and possibly commons which is also ballooning). While it's true that one day we may move the patrol flag from recentchanges to revision and may lament that we can't backfill all the records, it's also possible that this won't happen for years (or ever) or that no one will care that all the gazillion patrol records from long ago can't be backfilled into revision (I know I won't). Thoughts?
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