> * I wnated to get it fixed up last week, but I had an important talk to give, and my harddrive crashed, and I got a PowerBook, which together turned out to be rather distracting ;-)
> Problems include, but are not limited to:
>
> * In various places it tries to load metadata for *every* revision of
> the page. This would be fatal on the actual Wikipedia, where there are
> pages with tens of thousands of revisions. There are likely other
> severe performance and scalability issues with it.
Yup. It's still in my famous "OK-it-kinda-works-now-we-wait" stage.
> * The 'management' interface for defining survey options is not locked
> off properly, and is very hard to use if you do get to it.
I wan't sure who should get access to it. It is a single line in the code where to limit access. For it being "hard to use", it basically is used *once* to set up topics, and then not at all (ideally) or very sparsly (to add/delete topics). I don't see that as a reason to keep it "in limbo".
> * Lack of HTML-safety on the UI interface: as a quick hack I added
> htmlspecialchars() guards, but things really should be changed to use
> wikitext where appropriate; several of the UI messages are currently
> displaying raw HTML tags.
Well, they didn't show that raw HTML when I checked 'em in. I'm pretty sure of that one. I'll see if I can fix that.
> If anybody would like to work on it further that would be spiffy;
> otherwise it will remain in limbo indefinitely.
I should have some time during this week, although I'll have to setup mysql/apache/yadayada on my new HDD.
Anyway, we can turn this on with a few days (weeks?) delay, just in case. No need to rush, at least not a technical one ;-)
Magnus