Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Even if you dont enable that for en. due to load problems, could you at least enable it for smaller wikipedias like is. pretty hard to bog down the DB on a 4MB database, even with the most intensive queries, would be a great maintenence tool.
The argument against this has always been that with Special:AskSQL enabled on any Wikimedia project, you can access any DB for any other Wikimedia project. Personally, I don't know how, but maybe the relevant SQL syntax element could be filtered out to prevent this?
Timwi