Rob Church wrote:

On 10/01/07, werdna@svn.wikimedia.org werdna@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:

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Revision: 19054 Author: werdna Date: 2007-01-09 23:50:41 -0800 (Tue, 09 Jan 2007)

One observation here - that change appears to alter the parser so that it may cause database writes on each execution.

A parse operation is supposed to be a "read" type operation, so this sort of thing is probably not good design...

How would you do it? I thought that this would be the most sensible option - rather than periodically refreshing templatelinks for no good reason; why not do so when an actual change is detected?

Andrew Garrett (werdna)