[WikiEN-l] Try out the rating scheme

[geni]

On 11/4/05, Poor, Edmund W <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:
> If testing this new feature does NOT cause the servers to slow down
> immediately, then there is no reason not to try it out. Someone had
> claimed an immediate TRIPLING of access time, but Magnus says "I doubt
> it will degrade performance in the initial phase", and I believe him.
>
> Magnus is one of the three people whom we all trust the most at
> Wikipedia. If he says there's no risk in a live test of a new feature,
> then I say there's no risk.
>
> Tim Starling, do you agree?
>
> Ed Poor
> Former Developer


If people are really worried we could:

1.)Try this on one of the smaller languaes

2.)try it around 3am on a monday

3.)I can't be the only one involved in a non wikimedia project. Give
it to one of them to test.
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geni