Re: [Wikitech-l] Render with a slow process

Slow process, fast rendering Imagine someone edits a page, and that editing hits a very slow tag-function of some kind. You want to respond fast with something readable, some kind of temporary page until the slow process has finished. Do you chose to reuse what you had from the last revision, if it the content of the function hasn't changed, or do you respond with a note that you are still processing? The temporary page could then update missing content through an API. I assume that a plain rerender of the page will occur after the actual content is updated and available, i.e. a rerender will only happen some time after the edit and the slow process would then be done. A last step of the process could then be to purge the temporary page. This work almost everywhere, but not for collections, they don't know about temporary pages. Is there some mechanism implemented that does this or something similar? It feels like something that should have a general solution. There are at least two different use cases; one where some existing information gets augmented with external data (without really changing the content), and one where some external data (could be content) gets added to existing content. An example of the first could be verification of references, wile the later could be natural language generation. /jeblad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l