User "Krinkle" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r83554. Full URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/83554#c25127 Commit summary:
(bug 14645) Show expensive special pages differently in miser mode on Special:SpecialPages. Patch by Jarry1250 with a few tweaks by me. Tested, saw no errors or warnings. Comment: In a "normal" situation <small>(which admittedly hasn't existed for quite some time, if ever, for some aspects of Wikimedia's setup)</small> these special pages would be refreshed once a month or once a week - for wikis in wgMiserMode. In my opinion that leaves the special pages in a state that they're still very useful to the user and accurate enough. No need to indicate to the user on the overview pages that some of these special pages are not refreshed instantly on-click. On the special pages themselves is already a notice on top indicating that this maintenance report was last refresh at date X (see [[Special:BrokenRedirects]] for example). -- Since we're currently not in this normal situation this leads to cases like [[Special:WantedPages]] showing dates from 2009. But that's a bug/open issue in Wikimedia's configuration. No wiki should ever plan to not run these expensive pages, if they do they should probably remove them/uninstall them. So from a Wikimedia POV it would make sense to perhaps indicate some in a special way that they're no longer refreshed until further notice, but certainly nothing in MediaWiki core nor wgMiserMode. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-CodeReview mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-codereview
