AlphabetDP(a)aol.com wrote:
Is the only reason for the limiting of file size due
to the editing or
is there another issue we should be concerned with -- such as storage or
search performance?
The 32k warning is specifically about browsers that cut off edited text
at 32k (old Netscape, IE on the Mac, some others perhaps). This is only
a warning, however, and not a limit in the wiki. Theoretically the
maximum size of a wiki page in MediaWiki is 16 megabytes (stored in a
MEDIUMTEXT column).
I wouldn't recommend you actually approach 16mb, though. :) Naturally,
the longer pages get, the slower it will be to deal with them and the
more disk space is required to store them. If you have a strict
memory_limit set in PHP, very long pages may simply kill the script.
Note that currently we don't have diff-based storage; when you make a
change to a page the entire previous revision is stored in whole.
(Consider enabling $wgCompressOld if you have zlib support in PHP; this
will reduce old text requirements by roughly half.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)