Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-08-16 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
John wrote: > Running every 60 seconds can cause an issue if you end up with multiple > instances of the script. Setting it at 5-10 minute intervals ensures that > tasks get completed in a reasonable time frame without causing collateral > issues. I maintain that is too long, and leads to users wo

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-08-15 Thread John
Running every 60 seconds can cause an issue if you end up with multiple instances of the script. Setting it at 5-10 minute intervals ensures that tasks get completed in a reasonable time frame without causing collateral issues. On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > Emanu

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-08-15 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
Emanuele D'Arrigo asked: > > With low activity wikis, I have found that creating a cron of runjobs.php > > works best. Relying on the default behavior only gets a fraction of the > > total jobs run. > > How often do you run runjobs.php via cron? Or what criteria do you use to > decide the frequen

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-08-13 Thread John
For me I have a low enough volume wiki that the overall queue doesn't grow too quickly so I run a cron every 10 minutes, primarily because I don't want email based notifications to lag too much. On Saturday, August 13, 2016, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote: > On 13 August 2016 at 01:10, John > > wrote:

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-08-13 Thread Emanuele D'Arrigo
On 13 August 2016 at 01:10, John wrote: > With low activity wikis, I have found that creating a cron of runjobs.php > works best. Relying on the default behavior only gets a fraction of the > total jobs run. > How often do you run runjobs.php via cron? Or what criteria do you use to decide the f

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-08-12 Thread John
With low activity wikis, I have found that creating a cron of runjobs.php works best. Relying on the default behavior only gets a fraction of the total jobs run. On Friday, August 12, 2016, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote: > Dear Nick, > > apologies for my incredibly late reply, it is very ungracious of

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-08-12 Thread Emanuele D'Arrigo
Dear Nick, apologies for my incredibly late reply, it is very ungracious of me. Running runjobs correctly updates the links and turns them into blue. I have not tried with the browser in incognito yet because meanwhile I disabled the Mediawiki-based caching, seemingly solving the problem. So I'm

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-06-08 Thread John
Two Yeah things might be happening. Try opening the page with the red link in a private/incognito mode tab to check if it is your browser caching or the server. second try running runjobs.php and ensuring that its just not a queue issue On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote:

[MediaWiki-l] Redlinks, cache, short url interaction?

2016-06-08 Thread Emanuele D'Arrigo
Greetings, quick intro: I have been a mediawiki user for a long time (wikipedia and within companies) but I only had a couple of stints at administering one. I am in the process of setting one up for my neighborhood - or about 65 families. It pretty much all works but as my neighbors includes any