On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 14:47 +0200, Alex Regh wrote:
I don't know how they work, but I guess they have
to have some mechanism for
the feedback, too. A distributed cache for reading would probably be helpfull
already, and in the long term it might make sense to distribute the databases,
too. After all, why should chinese and arabian (for example) entries have to
cross an ocean to get edited, those WPs are probably read there a lot more
than in America or Europe, too.
More caching is planned for logged-in users and caching parts of a page
using ESI (
http://www.esi.org) which is the main technology used and
partly developed by Akamai. Squid3 supports it, the new xhtml is
structured to simplify this, see the html comments at
http://test.wikipedia.org for some info on this.
There's still heaps of work to be done to ESI-enable MediaWiki:
* providing an efficient way to do the partial views
* purging parts
* maybe translating templates to ESI snippets as well to make the easily
purgeable
* Squid3 with esi/epoll stability testing)
Anybody wishing to help is welcome of course- the more hands, the
quicker this will happen.
--
Gabriel Wicke