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 -
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