There's been some discussion on a development mailing list regarding the namespace selector in contributions pages, which is expensive due to our schema arrangement.
One of our database administrators has posed this question, which I thought I'd forward to this list, since it's full of users.
Rob Church
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com Date: 23-May-2006 11:28 Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Contributions: index missing? To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@wikimedia.org
Hi!
It can be a task for tool server, and can be as well derived from our xml dumps.
We have all that information in recentchanges (without an index for this exact operation), but even then, I'm not convinced it has to be used his way.
What is the point of per-namespace contribution feature on live site? What are the applications of it?
Domas