[WikiEN-l] automated processes, and wikipedia API

Mon Jul 7 15:40:51 UTC 2003

I am just now reading over the e-mail's from the list over the past 4 days, and I am delighted to see that someone beat me to it.  I was going to suggest the same thing.  I have no experience with the wikipedia code, or server, but I would be more than happy to work on a script that would automatically update these pages (I would require some assistance or at least developer access.  Which reminds me, I have reqested developer access via sourcefourge so that I can start work on a wikipedia API in python, but no one has replied to my request (although I still have about 40 more unread e-mails to read so maybe someone has :))
If anyone is interested in working on the wikipedia API in python, no knowledge of python is needed (I personally have never written anything in python, this is sort of an excuss to learn it.), although programming experience is a must.   I plan on creating a sourceforge project sooner or later for the python API, but for now, if you want to join the current team of 4 programmers, just e-mail me at wikipedia at jumpingjackweb.com.

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Michael Becker
a.k.a Mbecker
a.k.a MB

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Benjamin Esham <bdesham at iname.com>
Reply-To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Date:  Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:08:13 -0400

>On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 11:49  PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
>
>> webmaster wrote:
>>
>>> Recently, I have seen multiple requests for pages that were once 
>>> autimatically updated, like Orphaned pages, to be updated.  It is my 
>>> understanding, that the automatic updating of these pages was turned 
>>> off because the server was running slowly.  Since then, we have 
>>> gotten a second server.  So could someone please turn these services 
>>> back on?
>>
>> They're still very slow and take the wiki to its knees for minutes at 
>> a time.
>>
>> These functions need to be rewritten in an efficient manner before 
>> they'll be reenabled on the big, slow English wiki.
>
>What if we cached each of the pages (as we do now), updating the cache 
>each day during the times of lowest traffic?  That would keep the pages 
>reasonably up-to-date, while at the same time adding only a little to 
>the server strain.
>
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