El 5/14/09 2:17 PM, Alex escribió:
Brion Vibber wrote:
I believe that refers to yesterday's replication lag on the machine running watchlist queries; the abstract dump process that was hitting that particular server was aborted yesterday.
Is Yahoo still using those? Looking at the last successful one for enwiki, it looks like it took a little more than a day to generate. Combined with all the other projects, that seems like an awful lot of processing time spent for something of questionable utility to anyone but Yahoo.
Actually, yes. :) I've occasionally heard from other folks using them for stuff, but indeed Yahoo is still grabbing them.
The script needs some cleaning up, and it wouldn't hurt to rearchitect how it's generated in general. (First-sentence summary extraction is also being done in OpenSearchXml for IE 8's search support, and I've improved the implementation there. It should get merged back, and probably merged into core so we can make the extracts more generally available for other uses.)
-- brion