On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:56:18PM +0100, Magnus Manske wrote:
* article ("blank:")
* "talk":
* "user:"
* "user talk:"
* "wikipedia:"
* "wikipedia talk:"
* "image:"
* "image talk:"
* "special:" (not stored in the database, generated on-the-fly)
Thanks for the enumeration, Magnus. It is very helpful. Could you tell
me, how are Wikipedia namespace articles different from regular
articles? Are they special in that only sysops can edit them? Are they
special in that what is in them results in changes being made to the
database and the behavior of the Wikipedia?
IMHO we could live with a good-but-imperfect database
until we have
explored other ways of optimizing the db/software. One of them would be
switching to Postgres on a test server.
That is what I'm exploring here.
Jonathan
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