Hi,
I already wrote about this issue here:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/
pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/033518.html
The problem - messages on default skin include project name, and the
inclusion costs milliseconds. I didn't do proper profiling now, but
it may consume up to 20% of time required to push out a simple page.
The easy immediate cure for any site is to check that there're no
transformations happening in these messages:
mediawiki:aboutpage
mediawiki:privacypage
mediawiki:disclaimerpage
mediawiki:aboutsite
mediawiki:pagetitle
As for mediawiki development, the urls may point to Project: (what
would be rewritten into proper project namespace afterwards), or have
$wgSitename used in Message files...
Message transformations matter in many other cases, but those at
least are not triggered on every page load.
I guess this doesn't matter that much with Tim's new Skin rendering
engine, but I can't tell now, :)
Cheers,
Domas
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