[people on wikien-l wanting the article rating feature switched on]
Magnus Manske (magnus.manske@web.de) [050907 00:40]:
I know, Brion is busy with the XML export/import and a zillion other things, but if you find a few minutes, maybe you could give it a quick check and turn it on? If it drags the servers down, it can always be turned off again...
I understand he didn't like it pulling in all revisions (that being the aspect which would bring the DB to a grinding halt). Perhaps pull in just the last ten, and let people page back through earlier revs ten at a time? And if rating articles is HUGELY popular, change that to five revs at a time ;-)
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-June/030325.html
- the second and third problems there can be worked around by requiring steward or wikisysop-level access to mess with stuff; changing rating categories would presumably be a fantastically rare action.
- d.