There needs to a series of mirrors to show static pages, and
wikipedia.com
only used for Recent Changes and editing. Their would still be a lot of
load on
wikipedia.com but not as much, and if you just have to look
something up it would be easier. The mirrors could update about once or
twice a day.
School ends on the 24th, hopefully I'll be able to implement it this
summer. It would just need something to automatically produce static pages
which the mirrors would somehow be informed of what to download or it
could all be bziped up, whatever. I'll try to make it in as seperate files
as possible so it doesn't have to actually be implemented until its ready
and wanted.
Ian Monroe
http://ian.webhop.org
On Wed, 8 May 2002, kband(a)www.llamacom.com XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:
=?iso-8859-1?q?Chuck=20Smith?= wrote:
Improving performance on English server: when the
server reaches a certain threshhold of activity could
we replace the text of all the Special pages with:
"This page is currently inaccessible because of the
immensive amount of traffic we're getting. Wikipedia
is just too popular."
Removing Recent Changes functionality removes most of the
functionality for me as an editor...taking it down would be almost as
bad as the current molasses we're in.
A much better suggestion would be to fix the code. My completely
unhelpful suspicion is that it's PHP's fault. But I'm a perl bigot, so
take it for what it's worth. I'm just not surprised we're having
problems.
--tc
[Wikipedia-l]
To manage your subscription to this list, please go here:
http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l