[WikiEN-l] Grinding to a halt?

[Poor, Edmund W]

I would really like for us to make a serious 
effort to speed up Wikipedia.

I know we have some wonderful features, but 
if our database is too slow to accommodate 
them, we have to:
* ditch the extra features,
* get a better database, or
* live with the slowness

I hate the slowness. I don't mind waiting up 
to 10 seconds for a response, especially if 
I'm doing something I *expect* to be slow, like 
my watch list. But after 20 or 30 seconds I lose
patience.

To glance at an article, bring up the talk page, 
and start editing the talk page is three separate 
operations. If each one takes over 10 seconds, 
that's half a minute of my life wasted.

N.B.: I don't begrudge the actual time spent 
reading or writing article!!!

An impatient but avuncular Uncle Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: K Forstner [mailto:kurt.forstner at chello.at]
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:08 PM
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Grinding to a halt?


Over the past days and weeks, whenever I tried to access Wikipedia it either
hardly worked or didn't work at all. I've made a habit of clicking "Recent
changes" or "Older versions" and then get up and make myself a cup of tea or
something. When I come back I'm sometimes lucky but ever so often I'm not. I
know quite a number of people who'd be eager to contribute but they tell me
they are just fed up. Is there any hope in sight?

K Forstner (aka KF)