2010/10/7 Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.comSimetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com
It.source uses many "list pages", daily updated by a bot, containing
other
project-specific queries. They are "normal" pages, and their chronology
is
bot useless and heavy. DynamicPageList extension could solve in part such
a
useless overload of web space, but its output can't be finely tuned.
Storing many revisions in history is not expensive. Don't worry about it. There's no way any users, even admins, will ever be permitted to update pages without leaving any history -- it violates the principle of reversibility that underlies how wikis work. Is there some problem you have with these list pages other than the fact that they have lots of history that no one cares about? If not, this is useful to read:
Thank you. Really I went back to http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesWikipediaIT.htm, and list pages ("Elenco...") have a history of less than 2Mby each. You're right.
Alex