On 12 August 2010 00:01, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote: ...
I'm sorry to disappoint you but none of the issues you wrote down here are any new. If after reading any books or posts you think we have deficiencies, mostly it is because of one of two reasons, either because we're lazy and didn't implement, or because it is something we need to maintain wiki model.
I am not dissapointed. The wiki model make it hard, because everything can be modified, because the whole thing is giganteous and have a innertia, and the need to support a giganteous list of languages that will make the United Nations looks like timid. And I know you guys are a awesome bunch. And lots of eyes has ben put on the problems.
This make mediawiki a ideal scenario to think about tecniques to make the web faster.
Heres a cookie, a really nice plugin for firebug to check speed. http://code.google.com/p/page-speed/