[Wikia-l] Wikistats - weekly or monthly?

[Robin Forlonge Patterson]

Weekly updates would be fine with me. Even monthly
if it makes a noticeable difference.

[Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
New Zealand
Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
cooperative MediaWiki site


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JohnQ" <johnq at wikia.com>
To: "Central Wikia Mailing List"
<wikia-l at wikia.com>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikia-l] Wikistats reverting to
Valentine's Day version?


> Yep... we hear from people who want them (and
review them) daily ... and
> from others for whom it's not as critical. We
think the new way of
> getting this data will help us keep balance. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Q.
>
>
> Jamie Hari wrote:
> > To be honest,
> >
> > We don't need these daily. They simply don't
provide enough
> > granularity to be useful on a daily basis.
> > Even weekly might be overkill.
> >
> > Slow the crons down and save Wikia some CPU
cycles. I rather see those
> > cycles up front on a Squid! ;)
> >
> > If you still really want these stats that
much, I suggest setting up a
> > new slave with a low synch speed.
> > (Obviously it won't matter if this slave is a
few minutes/hours behind)
> > Slow the cron down to a weekly or bi-weekly
run, instead of daily.
> >
> > Heck.. (en) Wikipedia hasn't been able to
successfully complete a
> > stats-run in months!
> > Anyone who uses these stats for anything
half-way important... should
> > probably reconsider.
> >
> >
> > My 3 cents,
> > (2 cents Canadian. hahaha!)
> >
> > -- 
> > Jamie Hari
> > Editor-in-Chief
> > Marvel & DC Database Projects
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/2/07, *JohnQ* <johnq at wikia.com
<mailto:johnq at wikia.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Robin... thanks for letting me know.
Looking into it.
> >
> >     As background, processing stats on a daily
basis takes a fair
> >     amount of
> >     computing power...  first, we dump the
full db every day (which we'll
> >     continue to do for backup purposes)...
then we run a MediaWiki
> >     program
> >     that calcs the stats. This whole process
has been taking over 24 hours
> >     to complete... at which point our cron job
to calc the stats starts up
> >     again. We're looking at ways to alternate
processes and locations...
> >     which would be a short-term solution...
but we're hoping to release a
> >     new way of calc'ing the stats that
accesses a backup db directly
> >     rather
> >     than working through the db dumps.
> >
> >     Anyway... thanks again for pointing that
one out... I'll have the
> >     guys
> >     take a look.
> >     John Q.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     Robin Forlonge Patterson wrote:
> >     >
http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm
> >
<http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWik
iaGENEALOGY.htm>
> >     > is dated Feb 14. The same link gave me a
fairly
> >     > up-to-date version a few days ago,
although I
> >     > noticed that there were more blank cells
athan
> >     > usual. Is this a known problem?
> >     >
> >     > [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
> >     > 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua
City 5026,
> >     > New Zealand
> >     > Member of NZ Society of Genealogists
since 1974
> >     > http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
<http://wc.rootsweb.com/%7Erobinp>
> >     > And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a
free
> >     > cooperative MediaWiki site
> >     >
> >     >
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