Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
I misunderstood the problem, evidently. I thought it was a one-off thing due to software bugs the sysadmins didn't know about. It seems it's more like a known, ongoing problem whose cause isn't understood yet, so there's no point in bugging people about it all the time, no.
Although, I still think a "oldest job" statistic might be useful.
Not only for statistics, it would also provide users with an opportunity to see whether it is due to the job queue or a bug if a category membership or a link/template relationship is not updated soon after the actual edit to article.
In the same way it would be nice to extend "?action=purge" to log any discrepancies it encounters between the pre- and post-purge states to ease debugging.
Tim