Jeff Merkey wrote:
...Some sort of constraint should be placed into
MediaWiki to limit
the call depth and complexity for some of these templates by refusing
to save changes for templates which are so obviously broken.
Yup. See this message from Simetrical, over in the "slowness
tonight?" thread:
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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:42:23 -0400
From: Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] slowness tonight?
Yes, those load bog-slowly. I tested WP:RD/S. If I leave in the
header, but remove the archives, it loads in 40191 ms on preview
according to Tamper Data. With the archives but not the header, it's
just 6766 ms. Without either, it's 5836 ms. With both, it's 49430 ms.
I think the conclusion is clear: the header adds over 30 seconds to
the page load time. It needs to be killed, stone-dead. This is the
sort of thing that the wikitext include limit was supposed to prevent
-- it seems not to be doing its job.