On 12/12/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/12/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/11/06, Michael Noda michael.noda@gmail.com wrote:
Absolutely. But how often are they checking for new data? Every database dump? How soon after one does the new data propogate?
They are doing batch updates from dumps. .. I can find out exactly what their update schedule looks like.
Well, that answers an OTRS complaint I spotted last night about vandalism in one of the enGoogled articles! Any idea how often they're likely to update?
(On the plus side, vandalism like this shouldn't be too much of a problem - our geotemplated articles are likely to have a smidgen more competent attention than the average)
Indeed, for those of us more used to an edit-save-test paradigm, it becomes very confusing to not have corrections appear immediately. I still don't know if [[Iran]] is still 60 miles over the border in Iraqi Kurdistan, or if [[Connecticut]] is just off the South Fork of Long Island, or if other editors have fixed these (these are the two most notable errors I've found so far.) Maybe Google can be convinced to devote resources to accelerating their update schedule, but I for one am less hopeful.