[Toolserver-l] Toolserver countdown

[emijrp]

You can see the ugly source code here[1]

[1]
http://code.google.com/p/toolserver/source/browse/trunk/tools/wpcounter.py

2010/4/13 emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com>

> Hi all;
>
> The counter page is generated every 5 minutes, using the last data
> available in site_stats table for every wiki project. So, the editrate can
> change every 5 minutes, I think that it is a good estimation.
>
> Regards!
>
> [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Site_stats_table
>
> 2010/4/13 Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de>
>
> Cool thing!
>>
>> We need sth. similar for OSM! :)
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> River Tarnell schrieb:
>> > Ilmari Karonen:
>> >> In principle, it should also be possible to make a true live Wikimedia
>> >> edit counter: all you'd need to do is subscribe to the IRC
>> RecentChanges
>> >> feed and condense it down to some suitably low-bandwidth, low-latency
>> >> format for transmitting to the browser.  I'm not sure how practical
>> that
>> >> would be with plain old AJAX, though (you really don't want to make a
>> >> new request for every edit), but Java or Flash or something like that
>> >> ought to handle it fine.
>> >
>> > I did something similar to this in JS alone:
>> >
>> >   <http://toolserver.org/~river/recentchanges/<http://toolserver.org/%7Eriver/recentchanges/>
>> >
>> >
>> > It requires 1 request per second to update, but the backend is a C++
>> > FastCGI and the database query is trivial, so the requests create no
>> > noticeable load.  I imagine it should be fairly simple to do something
>> > similar for a plain number-of-edits counter.  (You would only need to
>> > return number of edits, rather than the edits themselves, so a little
>> > less bandwidth would be used.)
>>
>>
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