On May 18, 2014, at 9:02 PM, John Foster <jfoster81747(a)verizon.net> wrote: I have been doing a lot of editing of content to my site & have noticed that the runJobs.php script seems to be only running when I manually do it. I thought that all the mediawiki maintenance utilities were run by mediawiki as needed to keep the site up to date with the maintenance the massive editing generates. I've searched the web for info on this but have found little to suggest that any of these scripts are in fact automated. Can someone advise if that is the case? Is there a logging process for those scripts performance? Thanks john _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Have you read: http://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgJobRunRate Smaller wikis or less traffic ones... Set up a Cron job to runJobs.php every 5 mins or so. Just use --maxjobs set at 10 or 20 or something in the middle. Tom > On May 18, 2014, at 9:02 PM, John Foster <jfoster81747(a)verizon.net> wrote: > > I have been doing a lot of editing of content to my site & have noticed > that the runJobs.php script seems to be only running when I manually do > it. I thought that all the mediawiki maintenance utilities were run by > mediawiki as needed to keep the site up to date with the maintenance the > massive editing generates. I've searched the web for info on this but > have found little to suggest that any of these scripts are in fact > automated. Can someone advise if that is the case? Is there a logging > process for those scripts performance? > Thanks > john