[Toolserver-l] Interwiki handling on the toolserver. (Was: FYI: Changing of interwiki-bots-account-approval)

[Purodha Blissenbach]

Hello all,

> with the beginning of the next year (2011) I will not longer accept new 
> interwiki-bot-accounts, if:
> [...] 

While we're at it - in the future, we shall have interwiki bots reading the
replicated data bases to a great extent while gathering informations about
existing and prseumably missing interwiki links. This will be sparing lots of
request to the wmf servers which will then be bothered only when wiki pages
are actually altered.

Using the replicated data instead of making http (api) requests should speed 
up the data collection phase of large inteerwiki groups from several minutes
to a seconds or so.

Another approach of making interwiki bots use the replicated data would
be to pre-process their interwiki data into a list or table of versioned 
change requests, being published on the toolserver.
Interwiki worker bots running elsewhere would pick requests from the list &
process them. Picked requests are postponed for a while until replicated
data renders them done, or until a timeout (>replication lag) is exhausted.

Greetings - Purodha