Cool thing!
We need sth. similar for OSM! :)
Peter
River Tarnell schrieb:
Ilmari Karonen:
In principle, it should also be possible to make
a true live Wikimedia
edit counter: all you'd need to do is subscribe to the IRC RecentChanges
feed and condense it down to some suitably low-bandwidth, low-latency
format for transmitting to the browser. I'm not sure how practical that
would be with plain old AJAX, though (you really don't want to make a
new request for every edit), but Java or Flash or something like that
ought to handle it fine.
I did something similar to this in JS alone:
<http://toolserver.org/~river/recentchanges/<http://toolserver.org/%7Eriver/recentchanges/>
It requires 1 request per second to update, but the backend is a C++
FastCGI and the database query is trivial, so the requests create no
noticeable load. I imagine it should be fairly simple to do something
similar for a plain number-of-edits counter. (You would only need to
return number of edits, rather than the edits themselves, so a little
less bandwidth would be used.)
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