Re: [Wikitech-l] [MediaWiki-CVS] SVN: [48735] trunk/phase3/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php - Wikitech-l

27 Mar 2009

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  Revision: 48735

 Author:   midom

 Date:     2009-03-24 10:44:24 +0000 (Tue, 24 Mar 2009)

 Log Message:

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 change limit to reflect one in interface. :)

 Modified Paths:

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    trunk/phase3/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php

 Modified: trunk/phase3/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php

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 --- trunk/phase3/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php 2009-03-24 09:59:13 UTC (rev
48734)

 +++ trunk/phase3/includes/specials/SpecialRecentchanges.php 2009-03-24 10:44:24 UTC (rev
48735)

 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@

       $this->parseParameters( $parameters, $opts );

     }

 -   $opts->validateIntBounds( 'limit', 0, 5000 );

 +  $opts->validateIntBounds( 'limit', 0, 500 );

     return $opts;

   } 
Was this necessary for performance reasons? A lot of people were using
...
 500 recentchanges lists, some wikis even had them as
options on the RC interface (see
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Recentchangestext for example).
If it was only changed for aesthetic purposes, please change it back,
or make it a site option.