2010/10/7 Platonides Platonides@gmail.com
Really I went back to http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesWikipediaIT.htm, and list pages ("Elenco...") have a history of less than 2Mby each. You're right.
If you want to reduce history size, you should begin by removing date-changing edits [1]. If you really need to show a date there, you can include a template from all the pages containing just the date where all of them were last updated.
1- Eg. no changes on last 16 days, but the bot is dutifully copying the page each day
http://it.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource%3AElenco_alfabetico_de...
Thanks! I didn't so far studied that code, nor I'm the driver of that bot, but you're perfectly right! I'll edit it so that the page will be edited only when the list is changed!
Alex