[Wikia-l] [[Special:Recent changes combined]] - Could use improvement - Open it?

[Cizaña]

at the dofus it has disappear when we got update to 1.12alpha, i guess they
remove it.

Ciz

On Jan 6, 2008 3:57 AM, DanTMan <dan_the_man at telus.net> wrote:

> I looked back at [[Special:Recent changes combined]] recently thinking
> it might be an idea for watching the near absolute inactive wiki which I
> almost never check for changes anymore.
> But looking over it I found that it was completely unusable.
> * Markup is broken and is also hard to read.
> * diff and history links don't show up for wiki other than central.
> * The name/link of the page that was edited does not show.
> * The dates are incorrect (Edits that are from a few weeks ago show up
> under today's date.
> * The retrieval is extremely slow... From the looks of it, it is a heavy
> load on the server just to check 20 near inactive wiki.
> * And it doesn't keep up to date at all (The Combined recent changes
> lists changes which are over a day old when there are new changes in
> front, and is in no way recent)
> It doesn't look like it's something high in the que to be worked on.
>
> Would the techs mind opening up the code and letting the volunteers fix
> it, or rewrite it if necessary?
>
> I think I might be able to find some ways to make it run better to.
>
>
> Just a query...
> Would there be anything wrong with creating a special
> globalrecentchanges table inside of the shared database?
> It's the method I would probably use to make this work best... With
> database querying, and api behind if not ok...
>
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