Forwarding this from wikipedia-l. I should add: why stop at 256*100 bytes? When I originally instituted it, the limit of 5 gave a maximum text size of about 30 MB. Perhaps we should have a limit of 2 MB text size, plus some kind of direct check for circular inclusions.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: 5 templates per page limit Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:52:22 +1000 From: Tim Starling ts4294967296-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org Reply-To: wikipedia-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA@public.gmane.org Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc References: 008d01c452b7$5b4e56d0$d100a8c0@arcsy.co.jp

Guillaume wrote:

Hi all, There a security limit that prevent to use more than 5 times the same template in the same page. Waiting to found a better solution, I'd like to set this limite to 100 for template less than 256 bytes. (256 * 100 = maximum 25 Kb) I can do it myself in source, but no objection ?

Aoineko

You also need to implement article text caching, otherwise 100 inclusions of the same template will require 100 identical database queries. Why is this on wikipedia-l not wikitech-l?

-- Tim Starling