On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Mark A. Hershberger mah@everybody.org wrote:
I recall that one of Robla's standard articles from enwiki for demonstrating long rendering time was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama. I just did a purge on it and it took 34s to render.
Hi Mark, thanks for pointing that out. A better way to test this is to preview without (necessarily) changing anything, since the article will still be available to anyone else who requests it during the 34s it takes to parse it. Sucks that we should have to think about that, but that'll hopefully be one of the things that this fixes.
I haven't yet looked at how the article is written or the templates used, but perhaps that would be a good place to start looking.
I'm pretty sure that all of the {{Cite}} templates are the major consumers on that page. Maybe we can just get people to stop citing their sources ;-)
Rob