On mer, 2002-05-08 at 12:41, Chuck Smith wrote:
Improving performance on English server: when the server reaches a certain threshhold of activity could we replace the text of all the Special pages with:
"This page is currently inaccessible because of the immensive amount of traffic we're getting. Wikipedia is just too popular."
As others have said, I suspect that's not such a great idea -- it would make editing the 'pedia virtually impossible instead of the realm of the very very patient. :)
Also, has the Lastaj Sxangxoj page on the Esperanto Wikipedia page been defaulted to 3 days yet?
Apparently not. I've attached a diff to the config file that does that, and since while I was in there I noticed another setting, now tells it to NOT delete old page versions after 14 days. Grrrggghg!!!!! I think that's still going on on most of the non-English wikis -- that is a VERY BAD THING that should be changed as soon as possible!
While we're mentioning applying patches etc; I've added a couple little bug fixes to wikiTextEn.php (a couple missing/wrong entries in the intl wiki language name table), special_recentchangeslayout.php (watchlist entries are now boldened, but a bug was preventing those with spaces/underscores in the names from working), and special_watchlist.php (a little hack to cut down on the pain to the database -- every entry is checked with a separate database query, and the new accept-any-namespace version made it so slow as to time out on my long watchlist). Jimbo or Jason, if you could update those three files from CVS, that'd be great.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)