[OSM-dev] [Toolserver-l] Toolserver countdown

[Peter Körner]

Cool thing!

We need sth. similar for OSM! :)

Peter


River Tarnell schrieb:
> Ilmari Karonen:
>> In principle, it should also be possible to make a true live Wikimedia 
>> edit counter: all you'd need to do is subscribe to the IRC RecentChanges 
>> feed and condense it down to some suitably low-bandwidth, low-latency 
>> format for transmitting to the browser.  I'm not sure how practical that 
>> would be with plain old AJAX, though (you really don't want to make a 
>> new request for every edit), but Java or Flash or something like that 
>> ought to handle it fine.
> 
> I did something similar to this in JS alone:
> 
>   <http://toolserver.org/~river/recentchanges/>
> 
> It requires 1 request per second to update, but the backend is a C++
> FastCGI and the database query is trivial, so the requests create no
> noticeable load.  I imagine it should be fairly simple to do something
> similar for a plain number-of-edits counter.  (You would only need to
> return number of edits, rather than the edits themselves, so a little
> less bandwidth would be used.)