Forum:RefreshSpecial forthcoming, comments/ideas?



The Wikia techs are working on a new administrator-only Special page (at my request) called Special:Refreshspecial. This will allow administrators to update the cached Special: pages more often, and with better control for fighting vandalism. It is similar to a tech running the updateSpecialPages.php script, but will allow finer control.

These are the options we've thought up so far
 * Choose which special pages you want to refresh (as seen in screenshot)
 * Rough time estimate or "expense" for each (Special:Wantedpages can take days on Wikimedia)
 * Rough time estimate for total execution.

Some other ones that might be useful:
 * Date of last refresh for each.
 * Anything else?

While it is in the development stage, we thought it might be good to get some feedback. So, feed us. --Splarka (talk) 08:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm guessing from the description that this page will be a "Refresh Now" request. So if, were I an admin, I wanted to refresh a page every three days, I would need to log in every three days and manually request the refresh, correct? If so, can you make sure there is a API for this to automate it via a bot.
 * Conversely, will there be some sort of limitation on the number of refresh requests (e.g. once per day for any given page) to prevent DOS attacks. Tjoneslo 13:09, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Non-expensive special pages removed from list
The non-expensive special will not be listed now (can be back if necessary) - --BartL 09:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)