On 18.06.2015 21:40, Thomas Steiner wrote:
Sorry, realizing only now that this is for the Query API, not the Linked Data interface. My bad, please ignore my previous reply.
Maybe it would still be a good idea for bots to do a check against the live json data right before the edit. Checking live json is an additional step but should hardly slow down bots (which are throttled anyway).
The way that updates work *in all systems* (polling small lists of recent changes at intervals and hoping that this leads to a complete change history), it seems quite possible that such systems will sometimes miss an update, at least in the long run and under varying conditions (high server load, network troubles, update script down for a while, whatever). Insufficient update frequency is maybe not the biggest problem here (it should be in the range of one to a few minutes for all of the services).
Regards,
Markus