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(Rather avoid more tasks that pull from MW.)
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: In the mean time, I'm erasing the code, and modifying robots.txt to not index anything but /wiki/*. (I should have done that ages ago, anyway; Google indexes all the results of clicking on the Edit links, as it stands.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 12:34, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
: In the mean time, I'm erasing the code, and modifying robots.txt to not index anything but /wiki/*. (I should have done that ages ago, anyway; Google indexes all the results of clicking on the Edit links, as it stands.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 12:34, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
:: I could turn my [http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2009/02/extended-vanity-search-on-rosetta-code.html Vanity Search] blog entry into an RC task, but don't we already have a task that extracts info from RC stats pages? Maybe we should just let this other "search a web site that needs user input and gives answers on multiple pages" type task just die? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 12:56, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
:: I could turn my [http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2009/02/extended-vanity-search-on-rosetta-code.html Vanity Search] blog entry into an RC task, but don't we already have a task that extracts info from RC stats pages? Maybe we should just let this other "search a web site that needs user input and gives answers on multiple pages" type task just die? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 12:56, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
::: Actually, I'd prefer to avoid too many more tasks that pull from MediaWiki-supplied content; They're unkind to the DB backend, and my slice doesn't have enough RAM for memcached or squid to be particularly helpful when dealing with a high request-per-minute rate; apache processes fill 256MB pretty quick when they pile up waiting for a response from MySQL, which gets slower as it gets starved for RAM. (I can't afford to spend more on RC server performance unless RC can pay for itself.) If scraping and list navigation is the ultimate goal, something much more lightweight can be provided, that doesn't even touch MySQL. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 15:40, 3 May 2009 (UTC)