Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
The German Wikipedia has reached it's 20.000 article. We will send out a press info soon. So I'd like to ask all the admins to not use heavy database queries and not to do system updates the next few days - A heavy loaded server is not the best thing to have when journalists are coming to look at the project!
While I agree that we don't want a heavily loaded system, this unfortunately conflicts a bit with wanting to not make updates and potentially destablize things. :(
On Eloquence's suggestion, I've upgraded de.wikipedia.org to the same version of the wiki software that www.wikipedia.org is running, so it _does_ now include caching of pages to significantly reduce server load during an influx of new visitors. (But does _not_ include the fancy new experimental features in the development version that you'll see at test.wikipedia.org.)
The main visible changes should be:
* 'Nicht angemeldet' is shown in the corner instead of your IP address if you're not logged in. This is so we can store the pages and serve them back to other people without having to re-render the whole page.
* The 'Diese Seite wurde bisher (Nummer) mal abgerufen.' message at the bottom of pages is still there for now, but the hit count may not be shown up to date for anon users, and will undercount anonymous visits.
* The article count on the main page may not keep up to date for users who aren't logged in, as they will see a saved copy of the page. It will update when the page is next edited, and logged-in users should always see the current count.
(Note that the new version can use the alternate article count system -- links instead of commas -- but for now I have left it on the comma count, so it won't change suddenly and dramatically. :)
If anything is more broken than usual ;) give out a shout.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)