(Discussion redirected here because it is a technical point.)
Chuck Smith wrote:
> When someone searches, you need to have the redirects
> come up last in the search results. Don't eliminate
> them, but if someone is going to take the time to go
> through the entire search results, then they will find
> the redirects at the end. No option is needed for
> this solution. :)
In an ideal world, shouldn't we not link to redirects in the search
engine, but instead link to the page that's at the end of the
redirects?
--Jimbo
Does anybody have any guesses why the site has slowed down recently?
What did we change? Is it possible that the new diff engine eats too
many resources?
I think it would be good to have a user account on wikipedia.com so
that we can monitor the load status and the SQL queries in order to
diagnose these problems better.
Axel
Hi Tomasz!
> > Does someone have better solution for this problem? I think the
other
> > Wikipedias with umlauts could use this, too.
>
> Solution is trivial: HTML entities öaut; äaut; Öaut;
> Äaut; and whatever else do you use.
Okay, some keystrokes more, is everybody happy with this?
But more important: They should be converted to real umlauts in the
database.
Bye,
Kurt
Hello everybody!
At the German Wikipedia someone asked how to make umlauts with his
non-German keybord - it seems we need some kind of x-system like the
Esperanto-WP already has. But with small changes:
*Of cause we can't use the x-system. But there seems to be a standard:
In LaTeX you can use \"a for ä (same for ö and ü, don't know for ß). If
nobody has a better idea I think we should use this, too. But maybe
someone really wants to write \"a (is this possible?), so I think a
checkbox where the writer can choose the \"a-system would be good (above
the article and in the user settings).
*The \"a should be converted to ä in the database/editbox for better
readability
Does someone have better solution for this problem? I think the other
Wikipedias with umlauts could use this, too.
Bye,
Kurt
P.S.: On http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l it says:
To post a message to all the list members, send email to
wikitech-l(a)ross.bomis.com.
That should be changed to wikitech-l(a)nupedia.com
Traffic is WAY WAY up.
Yesterday, we saw 88,393 after excluding robots, which I define as anyone who sees more
than 1000 pages, or anyone whose browser reports a 'http agent' that I know to be a robot.
That's a record. By way of comparison, we averaged just under 48,000 pageviews last month.
Perhaps more interestingly, the number of unique visitors per day hit 20,000+ for the first
time yesterday, up from typical days of 6,000-9,000 earlier this month, and an average of
8181 last month.
Unique editors also hit a record yesterday of 351 unique ip numbers
doing editing. This typically has hovered around 150-250.
I am not sure what the cause is, if any. It could just be a highly
favorable update at Google, which is our primary source of traffic on
a day to day basis. (More even than Bomis, hmph, some supporters THEY turn
out to be, ha ha.)
--Jimbo
Julie Hofmann Kemp wrote on Wikipedia-l:
>
>And is the site really slow lately?? It seems to take forever for pages
>to load, and I'm not getting that at other sites....
>
I agree -- load times are often around 15s or more, suggesting that the
system is close to congestion collapse.
I wrote earlier about caching -- does anyone have any logging
information that might reveal the hot spot?
(My guess is concurrency problems in the database).
-- Neil
I just commited a completely translated wikiText file in German. As German as
only a few "unusual" characters (äöüÄÖÜß), it should be pretty easy to set
up. Can anyone try a German tarball with the conversion script? Remember:
* "diskussion" instead of "talk"
* "benutzer" instead of "user"
Thanks,
Magnus