On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
But I expect that few toolserver users were/are working on mediawiki extensions. For non-extension projects that have a lot of data, using a database server is the only reasonable solution. Just as a point of data, the "logging" table for the WP 1.0 project on toolserver, which has records for article assessments on enwiki, has about 46 million rows in a user database.
Yes, and we should definitely find ways to support projects like the WP 1.0 assessment DB in Labs. The feature set of the Labs DB replication isn't final, and it's likely going to be iterative. We do recognize the tremendous effort that's gone into some of these tools, and the value they represent.
We'll host an IRC meeting soon that we'll broadcast to toolserver-l@ as well to allow for more discussion of requirements for tool labs (the phase of the labs project dedicated to supporting tools development) and to answer questions about how folks can use Labs today. In the meantime, don't hesitate to join #wikimedia-labs on irc.freenode.net as well.
Erik