Yes, and we are updating our DB from the toolserver DB. There seem to be several issues, and Tomasz Finc or Arthur can summarize them.
In brief, we had to do things in a temporary way in order to meet the deadline.
And there were reasons we used our DB instead of the one on toolserver, but once the contest is over, the traffic will be a lot less.
Phil
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.orgwrote:
Hi Philip,
Maybe I'm wrong here, but as far as I'm aware, the current monument database is actually being scraped each night from the wikipedia lists. So basically it is a mirror of the lists with a lag up to 24 hours (if toolserver works etc). But maybe we're talking about different databases? Probably it would be easiest to just use one way or another the Monument Database we're running, rather than reinventing the wheel.
Lodewijk
2012/9/28 Philip Chang pchang@wikimedia.org
Back to Lodewijk's idea of articles and monuments, we unfortunately have an issue with monuments, simply because the database is not maintainable. However, I have wondered about accessing monuments through the Wikipedia pages that list them.
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