G'day Rob,
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.
D'oh.
One of our database administrators has posed this question, which I thought I'd forward to this list, since it's full of users.
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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
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What is the point of per-namespace contribution feature on live site? What are the applications of it?
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It's damn useful to be able to filter down contributions to a particular namespace. For example, if I know a user has repeatedly violated copyrights, I can check all Image:-related edits without needing to wave through edits to the other namespaces, to ensure that all his copyvios are tracked down and destroyed.