I think I've articulated our key performance principles, and am looking for good and bad examples. Our performance guidelines will be a set of values/principles, each one with a good example and a bad example drawn from our own experience. Here's the list: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Performance_guidelines#General_performance_p… Please feel free to paste links on the talk page, saying whether it's a good or bad example - I will add prose and explanation. I'll also be gathering examples on Friday at the Zurich hackathon. I want to polish this and get it approved during the hackathon. (I'm still cleaning up the detailed explanation of each principle.) RfC we can use to discuss larger questions: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Performance_standards_f… -- Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation