[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Feature Requests-2326967 ] interwiki.py -wiktionary

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Feature Requests item #2326967, was opened at 2008-11-22 13:48
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Category: interwiki
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Woo-Jin Kim (kwj2772)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: interwiki.py -wiktionary

Initial Comment:
interwiki.py -wiktionary take too much time to process.

Currently, interwiki bot retreives 60 en article, next 60 fr article. (language code is just an example)

I suggest for bot to retreive all wiki entries with same name at the same time to reduce time to retreive.

Thank you.

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>Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date: 2009-01-23 16:31

Message:
I am pretty confident that, the current way of retrieval is usually much
faster, because it is using the [[Special:Export]] special page so as to
retrieve those up to 60 (unless -array is used) pages at once, in a single
http request.

Pages of different language wikis are retrieved from URLs having different
domains, thus there is no way known to me to have them bundeld into a
single http request. Thus they would approximately take (up to) 60 times as
long. A http request consumes almost the same clock time, while increasing
its length only marginally adds to its duration.

Thus I suggest closing this suggestion as "wontfix". I leave it open
though so as to give others an opportunity to possibly disagree with me :-)

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