Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Bryan Tong Minh wrote:
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Hold back $wgTrackLinkChanges for a little bit; reverting r37322, 37430, 37432, 37435. Even disabled, it's started interfering with regular tasks like running the parser tests.
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Sorry for asking again, but can I put this back?
Sorry if you told us already, but... What's it for?
Bug 13588 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13588: It would be useful to have a new recentchanges like table that tracks changes in pagelinks, categorylinks, imagelinks, interwikilinks, etc.
A blocker of bug 7148 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7148
It looks like a really slow way to fix 7148 (watchlist for category membership changes). It would be much, much faster if you tracked changes to categorylinks only.
I don't think we should be increasing the DB write rate unnecessarily, it stresses both master and slave DB servers.
-- Tim Starling