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

[DanTMan]

T_T no code release...
Oh well...
Guess I'll make due with my near client-only AJAX Rc I'm working on...
^_^ RC Checking on multiple wiki... LIVE!

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)

sannse wrote:
> It's on Nef's list to make it compatible with 1.12 (from what I
> understand), I've shown him Dantman's mail too :)
>
> -- sannse
>
> Lisa "sannse" Carter
> Wikia Community and Technical Team
> http://www.wikia.com
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 6:54 PM, Cizaña <cizania at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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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