From: <jmc...@hy...> - 2012-07-26 20:59:11
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Hi James and Jeroen, Would you pleaes explain what is being gained by query caching? It seems to me that simple transclusion of pages stored on wikidata would be just as effective, would require no additional code. Thanks for your reply - john On 26.07.2012 12:12, Jeroen De Dauw wrote: > Hey James, > > This implementation of you is great, but there are some important differences with having full query management functionality. > > Your solutions is great because: > > * It's very simple > * It has huge benefits for API and Special:Ask queries > > While the thing I'm proposing > > * Is complex > * Does not benefit the API and Special:Ask (since it would consciously ignore these to avoid doing not needed work) > > But then again, it solves another problem then your change: > > * it fixes the existing persistent MediaWiki cache for articles to get invalidated at the correct points > * and it persistently caches results for inline queries > > So these two caching solutions can live happily next to each other. Once the new one has been implemented I suggest disabling the current one for inline queries, but keeping it for all the rest. > > Cheers > > -- > Jeroen De Dauw > http://www.bn2vs.com [1] > Don't panic. Don't be evil. > -- Links: ------ [1] http://www.bn2vs.com |