Are there any tricks to speeding up Mediawiki? I have many other pages on my site that talk to the MySQL database that open in <1s but the Mediawiki ones tend to take longer c.2-5s, and I don't have an enormous amount of load on the server.
It is a wiki installation that isn't editable by the public and doesn't use a skin as such (I just allow all the HTML I want to allow by editing the parser and another file), so I was wondering if there were any tricks to bypass things and make the pages load quicker. It's probably worth noting that I don't use the cache facility and that I have an extension that displays only if someone is logged in (this is the reason for chche not being used).
I think Mediawiki is great, just looking to find out if I can make it run faster. Sincere thanks to all responsible for the hard work that's gone into the script.