On 1/17/08, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
A couple times a year (such as about an hour ago) somebody does something like trying to delete the Wikipedia:Sandbox on en.wikipedia.org, which reaaalllly bogs down the server due to the large number of revisions.
This might not quite be relevant, but would it perhaps be possible to stop people saving to the sandbox? Since the advent of Preview, I don't really ever see a need to actually commit any changes there. Or perhaps old revisions (10 or more ago) could continually be deleted anyway. The old revisions aren't useful or interesting.
Steve