On 2013-06-17 4:20 PM, "Paul Selitskas" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Turning back to the automating thing and the Main Page. > > I've got tired updating the Other Wikipedias section (congratulations to > the Swedish Wikipedia!), so I wrote some code to automate the job. > > There is a bot that updates different statistics per wiki. I decided to > parse the data page and push it through a mediawiki message to avoid > hard-coded pieces of text inside. > > Here we have to expensive parts: getContent() for a template with necessary > data, and retrieving a message for the view. Is it OK to have expensives at > the Main Page? > > The module is placed here: <http://goo.gl/3V5St> > > -- > З павагай, > Павел Селіцкас/Pavel Selitskas > Wizardist @ Wikimedia projects > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
[Just personal opinion. Not an "official" answer] - main page is cached like any other page. The expensive function is more a deterrent against someone putting 1000 such calls on a page. A single getContent should not be an issue, even on a widely viewed page. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
