On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any reason not to have a flatted structure some- > where on the toolserver (or, in the long run, in MediaWiki)? > A quick look at recentchanges for dewp shows about > 22000 changes per month, about one every two minutes. With > about 80000 categories in all, it should be feasible to up- > date the structure incrementally, with daily/weekly/monthly > clean new full "dumps" (or even dispense with up-to-the-se- > cond data and just dump the flat structure hourly).
Incremental updates for a 'flattened copy' aren't especially realistic... as one user operation can produce millions of operations on the server. I won't bother saying much more, Daniel Schwen pretty much speaks for my view. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
