Hello, Mark. I just installed the cache setting; long pages become an order of magnitude faster to load. I think, you should make the caching to be default. Or consider to supply the hint at your set-up program. I think, for beginners, it should suggest the command memcached -d -l 127.0.0.1 -p 11211 -m 64 from the command line; then, value at the first example 127.0.0.0.1:11211 seems to be correct choice. I got this hint from the manual at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Memcached Consider to copypast this hint to the installer. You may repeat it also to the README file, and as comment in the LocalSettings.php I think, it is important, because it is difficult to guess. (at least, for those, who do not understand the meaning of the abracadabra "memcached -d -l ..." )
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
I've just finished preparing the first release candidate for MediaWiki 1.21 and I'd like your help testing it before the final release.
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Download: http://mah.everybody.org/mediawiki/1.21/mediawiki-1.21.0rc1.tar.gz
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