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arthurpsmith / author-disambiguator

Wikidata service to help create or link author items to published articles
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Some edit batches incur periods of inactivity of 10 min or more #114

Open Daniel-Mietchen opened 4 years ago

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

e.g. see the first two timestamps in https://tools.wmflabs.org/author-disambiguator/batches_oauth.php?id=e4eb4b

arthurpsmith commented 4 years ago

That's due to the maxlag parameter; the service is waiting until it drops down and edits can start up again. See pull request #107. This started happening once the WDQS lag was added in to maxlag on Wikidata.

Daniel-Mietchen commented 4 years ago

OK. Then it would make sense to inform the user about this, perhaps with a link to the relevant Grafana board. Otherwise, these cases of waiting are hard to distinguish from those when the tool is stalled, e.g. as per #111 .

arthurpsmith commented 4 years ago

I am certain there are no conditions under which it actually "stalls". The batch process may end prematurely of course, in which case you should see a link to restart the batch, at least on the main batches page. Maybe that link should be somewhere else?

arthurpsmith commented 4 years ago

all that said, we should have some way of reporting that maxlag is causing delays...