RLS wrote:
Can anyone shed some light on why the en.wp recent changes RSS feed is only updating once every 20 minutes or longer? It used to be as often as every 2 or 3 minutes.
I use Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool to keep an eye on the recent change when I feel like vandal patrolling. It relies on the RSS recent changes feed (since it includes diffs as part of the feed), but it's practically useless if it only gets two or three updates an hour.
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?
William
[1] I checked visually, and then got some numbers by doing the following.
% while 1 while? echo -n `date`: " " while? wget --quiet -O - 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss' | md5sum while? sleep 1 while? end Sat Oct 20 20:16:17 PDT 2007: 06dd8a9155b846fd979d9ab175e72626 - Sat Oct 20 20:16:18 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:20 PDT 2007: e87a1c94294fbfd29d83fb74a8ebfc4e - Sat Oct 20 20:16:22 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:23 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:27 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:29 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:31 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:33 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:35 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:36 PDT 2007: 1995f1b682f6ae2e662445cf1e228aae - Sat Oct 20 20:16:38 PDT 2007: 90d1741faeafab6aed5e0a301d725c6d - Sat Oct 20 20:16:47 PDT 2007: 90d1741faeafab6aed5e0a301d725c6d - Sat Oct 20 20:16:50 PDT 2007: 264f10662a9eb06b1dee1f0f44193c4c - Sat Oct 20 20:16:51 PDT 2007: 264f10662a9eb06b1dee1f0f44193c4c - Sat Oct 20 20:16:55 PDT 2007: 264f10662a9eb06b1dee1f0f44193c4c - Sat Oct 20 20:16:57 PDT 2007: 264f10662a9eb06b1dee1f0f44193c4c - Sat Oct 20 20:16:58 PDT 2007: 264f10662a9eb06b1dee1f0f44193c4c - Sat Oct 20 20:17:04 PDT 2007: 264f10662a9eb06b1dee1f0f44193c4c - Sat Oct 20 20:17:05 PDT 2007: 264f10662a9eb06b1dee1f0f44193c4c - Sat Oct 20 20:17:07 PDT 2007: 264f10662a9eb06b1dee1f0f44193c4c - Sat Oct 20 20:17:09 PDT 2007: d71cffdb3ec0f364f9514b14cbf05ce5 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:11 PDT 2007: d71cffdb3ec0f364f9514b14cbf05ce5 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:13 PDT 2007: d71cffdb3ec0f364f9514b14cbf05ce5 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:14 PDT 2007: d71cffdb3ec0f364f9514b14cbf05ce5 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:16 PDT 2007: d71cffdb3ec0f364f9514b14cbf05ce5 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:18 PDT 2007: d71cffdb3ec0f364f9514b14cbf05ce5 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:20 PDT 2007: d71cffdb3ec0f364f9514b14cbf05ce5 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:23 PDT 2007: d71cffdb3ec0f364f9514b14cbf05ce5 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:32 PDT 2007: 132ffcd2dd8d4e261778d3f536e5af86 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:34 PDT 2007: 132ffcd2dd8d4e261778d3f536e5af86 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:35 PDT 2007: 132ffcd2dd8d4e261778d3f536e5af86 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:37 PDT 2007: 132ffcd2dd8d4e261778d3f536e5af86 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:39 PDT 2007: 8885d1f2f0c92cf24a6b777480776e80 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:42 PDT 2007: d45b080c2388bc3d8c10b7d5f6ef7e81 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:43 PDT 2007: 902f59bec96fa4577b2647de08e385d7 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:47 PDT 2007: 8885d1f2f0c92cf24a6b777480776e80 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:49 PDT 2007: 8885d1f2f0c92cf24a6b777480776e80 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:51 PDT 2007: 902f59bec96fa4577b2647de08e385d7 - Sat Oct 20 20:17:58 PDT 2007: 09da0b1b16a2dae2a2c1c4293ba43671 - Sat Oct 20 20:18:00 PDT 2007: 09da0b1b16a2dae2a2c1c4293ba43671 - Sat Oct 20 20:18:03 PDT 2007: 09da0b1b16a2dae2a2c1c4293ba43671 - Sat Oct 20 20:18:04 PDT 2007: 09da0b1b16a2dae2a2c1c4293ba43671 - Sat Oct 20 20:18:06 PDT 2007: 09da0b1b16a2dae2a2c1c4293ba43671 - Sat Oct 20 20:18:08 PDT 2007: 09da0b1b16a2dae2a2c1c4293ba43671 - Sat Oct 20 20:18:10 PDT 2007: 09da0b1b16a2dae2a2c1c4293ba43671 - Sat Oct 20 20:18:12 PDT 2007: 09da0b1b16a2dae2a2c1c4293ba43671 - Sat Oct 20 20:18:39 PDT 2007: b46201cc7f0411b30b40b843753aa08c - Sat Oct 20 20:18:40 PDT 2007: b46201cc7f0411b30b40b843753aa08c - Sat Oct 20 20:18:41 PDT 2007: b46201cc7f0411b30b40b843753aa08c -