On 6/30/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 30/06/06, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.com wrote:
But still, it is a eye candy, that requires quite a lot of resources...
You call it eye candy, I call it an interesting and potentially damn useful feature idea. Running a web site that gets upwards of ten thousand odd hits per second, allowing any old web user to edit it, etc. etc. also requires resources.
I think this blame map idea is a hell of a lot more than eye candy, and would be a massively useful addition to Wikipedia, well worth investing time and effort, and possibly new hardware on. It would really help dealing with vandalism, hoaxing, unsourced statements and probably lots of other problems we haven't even realised yet. Hell, it would even make it easier to attribute unsigned posts to talk pages.
So performance is an issue. When is it not?
I love the fact that we have server admins telling us not to worry too much about the performance side of things :)
Steve