From: Rob Church <robchurch@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:24:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Tweak comment; people seem to whine about this one, not reading past the mt_rand... 
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~51700
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Tweak comment; people seem to whine about this one, not reading past the mt_rand() bit, and criticising us...
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diff --git a/includes/Article.php b/includes/Article.php
index 32ce420e06..5bb5915eb3 100644
--- a/includes/Article.php
+++ b/includes/Article.php
@@ -2403,12 +2403,11 @@ class Article {
 		$u = new LinksUpdate( $this->mTitle, $poutput );
 		$u->doUpdate();
 
-		if ( wfRunHooks( 'ArticleEditUpdatesDeleteFromRecentchanges', array( &$this ) ) ) {
-			wfSeedRandom();
+		if( wfRunHooks( 'ArticleEditUpdatesDeleteFromRecentchanges', array( &$this ) ) ) {
 			if ( 0 == mt_rand( 0, 99 ) ) {
-				# Periodically flush old entries from the recentchanges table.
+				// Flush old entries from the `recentchanges` table; we do this on
+				// random requests so as to avoid an increase in writes for no good reason
 				global $wgRCMaxAge;
-
 				$dbw = wfGetDB( DB_MASTER );
 				$cutoff = $dbw->timestamp( time() - $wgRCMaxAge );
 				$recentchanges = $dbw->tableName( 'recentchanges' );