Hi everyone,
Anyone who has played with Pending Changes knows that in many
circumstances, there were some very perceptable speed problems with
the feature on complicated pages (which unfortunately, tend to be the
pages that the feature is used on). The devs on the feature (Aaron
and Chad) did some investigation, and figured out that we weren't
caching as much as we should. This is all documented here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24124
This change was rolled out on
en.wikipedia.org. So, if you hadn't
played with Pending Changes in a while because of speed problems, now
is a good time to give it another shot. Visit here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes
...and follow the "Pages with pending edits" and the "All pages on
trial" links to find articles to try this out on.
We're not done with the performance work, but this particular fix was
pretty critical for the experience.
Rob