Can you be a bit more concrete in what you are thinking of.
In general i think most users would find it unacceptable if part of the page was only available after some slow (<1 min) amount of time after the page rendered. The closest things i can think of to this is image rendering (and especially video scaling) is asyncronous. Page rendering itself also works kind of like this - if someone edits a page, and pool counter decides too many people are trying to render at once, next viewer will get an old version of page. -- Brian On Saturday, April 25, 2020, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Slow process, fast rendering > > Imagine someone edits a page, and that editing hits a very slow > tag-function of some kind. You want to respond fast with something > readable, some kind of temporary page until the slow process has finished. > Do you chose to reuse what you had from the last revision, if it the > content of the function hasn't changed, or do you respond with a note that > you are still processing? The temporary page could then update missing > content through an API. > > I assume that a plain rerender of the page will occur after the actual > content is updated and available, i.e. a rerender will only happen some > time after the edit and the slow process would then be done. A last step of > the process could then be to purge the temporary page. > > This work almost everywhere, but not for collections, they don't know about > temporary pages. Is there some mechanism implemented that does this or > something similar? It feels like something that should have a general > solution. > > There are at least two different use cases; one where some existing > information gets augmented with external data (without really changing the > content), and one where some external data (could be content) gets added to > existing content. An example of the first could be verification of > references, wile the later could be natural language generation. > > /jeblad > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
