[WikiEN-l] Recent changes RSS feed

[RLS]

On 10/20/07, William Pietri <william at scissor.com> wrote:
> Hmmm... I have some code in Wikiticker that would make it relatively
> easy for me to build a basic RSS feed for you:
>
> http://dev.scissor.com/wikiticker/
>
> But getting the diffs for every change would be enough hits on the
> server that I always assumed it was, well, gauche. So I never tried.
>
>
> Looking at the feed, though, for me it was updating every 5-20
> seconds.[1] So perhaps it was a transient problem?

That's why Lupin's tool uses the feed built-in to the MediaWiki
software, it includes the diffs already, causing no further hits
against the servers.  If the tool were to use more reliable
notification of *every* change, it could just connect to IRC and get
those changes, but they don't include diffs (so the tool would have to
ping the server to get the diff for EVERY change -- clearly an
unacceptable performance drain).

I've had AVT running since about 02:00, and at the time you checked
thee feed was indeed updating regularly.  It does seem to be a
transient issue -- it only updated 3 times between 02:00 and 03:00,
but it's been updating on average about every 3 minutes since then,
which is acceptable (in my opinion).

--Darkwind