Last modified: 2006-04-17 17:21:59 UTC
Most special pages deliver only cached content, mostly updated every few days but sometimes there is no update for quite a long time - e.g. for nearly 4 weeks in march and now for more than a week. This fact is more than annoying for maintenance. Most no-update-periods are after outages when the side was down. I hope there are reasons for not updating - but sometimes I have the feeling they are just forgotten. There should be more transparency for these aspects: - First the timestamp for the last update should be added to the special pages - Second there should be given reasons why these pages are not updated
First, the timestamp will be present on all cached data sets as of the next update. Second, the updates are scheduled on a regular basis; this is of course going to be interrupted if the servers kick the bucket. The reason for the caching is that of performance and load; some of the queries used to produce those reports would kill our slaves if run on each view.
