[Wikia-l] Wikistats reverting to Valentine's Day version?

[Chris Stafford]

i also would rather have known weekly updates rather then spotty daily
updates

On Dec 2, 2007 10:21 PM, JohnQ <johnq at wikia.com> wrote:

> ... and enjoy those currency jokes while you can...(at least I hope it's
> short-lived).   :) :)
>
> 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/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.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><
> http://wc.rootsweb.com/%7Erobinp>
> >     > And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
> >     > cooperative MediaWiki site
> >     >
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