Help:Sensor pagess

A sensor page is a subpage of a article about a person. It executes all the time consuming calculations for an article in order that the main page of the article load and save rapdily for the largest number of contributors.

Periodically sensor pages are refreshed by a Bot so that updated information will be available to the main article, but the update cycle will only be as fast as wikia operations permit. If the sensor pages ever become too much of a load on the system, they can be protected so that only admins may update them.

The page makes no excuses about its slow speed. It's intention is to fully exercise SMW at the price of display speed.

Currently the sensor page performs the following tasks:
 * Calculation of Property:Ancestors this requires up to 255 saves to the property before termination of the routine. It is concievable that due to sql configuration, this results in near 255 disk hits- a completely unacceptable and slow situation if tree.
 * Detection of all current subpages for which a tab should be created. Output:Property:hint tabs

Bot operation
Bots should iteratively resave sensor pages in chronological order. One way to sort lists in the proper order utilizes MS Word: Help:AutoWikiaBrowser/sensor pages