FWIW, I didn't remove it because it was slow on enwiki, but because
the queries sucked
and it doesn't scale. Just because a query is fast doesn't mean it's
efficient...just means
your dataset is small.
-Chad
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <s.mazeland(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
A motivated developer can take the code and create an
extension out of it. There are over 1000 known extensions that add features not present in
MediaWiki core for whatever reason.
Calling people or people's actions ignorant is not helpful, in my opinion, Stip, so I
kindly request you to make constructive contributions.
Op 6 apr. 2013 om 14:07 heeft Stip <stipen.treublatt(a)gmx.net> het volgende
geschreven:
On our wiki it is a very useful feature too.
Removing it from the software just because it makes no sense on the en wikipedia is kind
of ignorant.
Am 05.04.2013 16:49, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo):
> The page has been removed because it took several seconds to load on the English
Wikipedia. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41078>
> Niklas has already fixed the link, it needs to be backported to 1.21.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46719>
>
> On the "uselessness" of the special page: sure, on en.wiki it's 120k
names, but e.g. on 178 Wikipedias it's a single very useful page of less than 50
names... <http://wikistats.wmflabs.org/display.php?t=wp&s=ausers_asc>
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