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Posted by: jsalsman

For details see https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1225

Posted by: jsalsman

So much for weeks.

Posted by: Retrospect

If the developers would just get on with it instead of tossing each other it would get done. Maybe, so much for months.

Posted by: Emperor

Would anyone care to dumb this down a bit?

Posted by: Tarc

Looks like they're adding a field to the en.wiki db; every entry in there has to be touched, and it is taking longer than initially anticipated.

If I followed the breadcrumbs correctly, it may have to do with this;

https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=revision&revision=109565

Posted by: jsalsman

Yes, the new field is a hash value for every revision of every page, which will help check whether a series of edits actually made any change. I don't see any evidence that such a check could ever happen often enough that an ordinary string comparison of the page text is insufficiently fast.

In the mean time a whole lot of toolserver scripts, queries, and bots are broken or buggy, including some that are very important for behind the scenes maintenance.