Hi.

In the context of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10621, the concept of using wiki pages as databases has come up. We're already beginning to see this:

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module:languages (over 30,000 lines) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Convertdata (over 7,400 lines)

At large enough sizes, the in-browser syntax highlighting is currently problematic. But it's also becoming clear that the larger underlying problem is that using a single request wiki page as a database isn't really scalable or sane.

(ParserFunction #switch's performance used to prohibit most ideas of using a wiki page as a database, as I understand it.)

Has any thought been given to what to do about this? Will it require manually paginating the data over collections of wiki pages? Will this be something to use Wikidata for?

MZMcBride