There appears to have been an incident in 2008 where Wikipedia was disrupted for half an hour by deleting the enwiki Wikipedia:Sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox page, which has a lot of revisions. After this, the 5000 revision limit was coded in. More info:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_process#Pages_with_many_rev... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_stocks#Scientizzle_for_the_B... * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_16#...
Hope that helps. Thanks and have a great day.
Novem Linguae
On 8/23/2022 4:42 AM, Martin Domdey wrote:
Thanks for your reply.
No, it's a portal service page with bot stuff only and without notable history at all.
But how can a 5000+ page deletion crash any of your servers? In my opinion happens not much in databases.
All the best, Martin
Thiemo Kreuz thiemo.kreuz@wikimedia.de schrieb am Di., 23. Aug. 2022, 13:35:
5000 is a very common limit that's all over MediaWiki (APIs and such) simply to not crash our servers. Which page is it? Usually pages with any notable history are turned into redirects and not deleted. Kind regards Thiemo _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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