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@chello.at] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 12:08 PM To: wikien-l@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)