The issue is always download speed when we serve a diverse international audience and at least make noises about serving the poor and the third world. Serving up articles over 100kb long with several images each over 200kb will basically stop a slower computer with limited memory operating with a modem in its tracks, sometimes even requiring a reboot. Essentially the site becomes unusable.
Fred
From: "JAY JG" jayjg@hotmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:07:56 -0400 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Article size consistency 32k
From: "David 'DJ' Hedley" spyders@btinternet.com Unless we're living in a world of 56K internet still, I think 32K could become at least 50K. Even articles on albums by Eminem and so forth are getting above 32K - Giving that limit is slowly even limiting the growth of good articles. If an article grows above that it should be allowed to grow, unless it is obviously repeating itself.
As far as I know the issue was never with download speeds, and currently most of the concerns are stylistic, rather than technical.
Jay.
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