Nicolas Weeger wrote:
- Fancruft and how to cope
Sure. When the wiki is slow, we should just cut off en:. After all, that's a fancruft, and it shouldn't exist. Or we should just concatenate all pages in one big page, there wouldn't need to have any page existence checking. More seriously: saying that merging articles could (help) solve slowness is a bad social solution to a technical problem. People want to write articles, as many as they want. What would be next? "Sorry, you made more than 5 modifications in the last 15 minutes, please wait 15 minutes to that everyone get a chance to edit"?
Indeed. keats appears to be starting from a personal distaste and then claiming this will be the destruction of Wikipedia. I note a curious lack of substantiating, ahh, numbers. keats, do you have any?
Fundamentally, taking out the word "fancruft": keats appears to be claiming that the mere fact of having 500k articles is unsustainable in MediaWiki. Is this the case? Do we stop all article creation now? If not, what do we do? Ration them?
- d.