Accidentally replied directly instead of to list like i meant to On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 8:15 AM bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some back of the napkin math > > If it takes 0.5 seconds to parse a page on average, it would take 289 days > to refresh all the pages on wikipedia (Assuming we aren't parallelizing the > task). It definitely seems like a non-trivial amount of computer work. > > See also discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157670 > (Basically the proposal is, instead of trying to purge everything in > alphabetical order, just start purging things that haven't been purged in > like a year or something. Discussion is fairly old, I don't think anyone is > working on it anymore). > > -- > bawolff > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:50 AM Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > >> >> בתאריך יום ה׳, 20 בפבר׳ 2020 ב-9:26 מאת bawolff < >> bawolff...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Pretty sure the answer is no (Although i don't know for a fact). >>> >>> However, parser cache only lasts for 30 days. So pages will get parsed at >>> least once every 30 days (if viewed). However that's separate from links >>> update (aka categories, linter, etc). >>> >>> I suspect that doing a linksupdate of every article once a month would >>> take >>> more than a month. >>> >> >> If it's true, and it may well be, is it conceivable that this will be >> some kind of a continuous process? >> >> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
