On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Tim Landscheidt <tim(a)tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
Is there any reason not to have a flatted structure
some-
where on the toolserver (or, in the long run, in MediaWiki)?
A quick look at recentchanges for dewp shows about
22000 changes per month, about one every two minutes. With
about 80000 categories in all, it should be feasible to up-
date the structure incrementally, with daily/weekly/monthly
clean new full "dumps" (or even dispense with up-to-the-se-
cond data and just dump the flat structure hourly).
Incremental updates for a 'flattened copy' aren't especially
realistic... as one user operation can produce millions of operations
on the server.
I won't bother saying much more, Daniel Schwen pretty much speaks for my view.