Simetrical wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On the page move form, a checkbox is shown,
checked by default, labelled
"update any redirects which point to the original title".
Is the typical user going to understand what this means and be able to
make an intelligent decision about whether to use it? Is there any
good reason this shouldn't always be done, with no option to skip it?
I don't know, someone asked for it at Wikimania. Michael maybe?
Also, what's the maximum number of redirects
we're expecting here, and
how long does each one take to fix? It would be nice if this could be
done synchronously rather than on the job queue, so you wouldn't have
to wait for possibly days for everything to be updated.
The number of redirects is unlimited, the time per redirect is probably on
the order of 100ms. If there's a job queue lag of days, then it's broken
and should be fixed. Someone else mentioned this problem before I deployed
it, and indeed there was a high job queue number on
en.wikipedia.org,
which is why I quadrupled the number of threads. It's now near-zero.
-- Tim Starling