On 10/20/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Hmmm... I have some code in Wikiticker that would make it relatively easy for me to build a basic RSS feed for you:
http://dev.scissor.com/wikiticker/
But getting the diffs for every change would be enough hits on the server that I always assumed it was, well, gauche. So I never tried.
Looking at the feed, though, for me it was updating every 5-20 seconds.[1] So perhaps it was a transient problem?
That's why Lupin's tool uses the feed built-in to the MediaWiki software, it includes the diffs already, causing no further hits against the servers. If the tool were to use more reliable notification of *every* change, it could just connect to IRC and get those changes, but they don't include diffs (so the tool would have to ping the server to get the diff for EVERY change -- clearly an unacceptable performance drain).
I've had AVT running since about 02:00, and at the time you checked thee feed was indeed updating regularly. It does seem to be a transient issue -- it only updated 3 times between 02:00 and 03:00, but it's been updating on average about every 3 minutes since then, which is acceptable (in my opinion).
--Darkwind