I like the way it is now. Google's servers load the articles faster
than wikipedia servers do, at least for me in Europe. Using the live
articles would cause longer load times.
(first post for me in this list, I hope I posted correctly)
On 12/13/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We (and they)
are in a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. It's
good that they're working from their own stashed copy instead of
hitting us live, because I doubt our servers could handle their
users' load. But of course on the other hand it's supremely
annoying that they're working from their own stashed copy,
because (as you note and I emphatically agree) our lovely
instantaneous wiki-quick edit-save-test loop is broken.
Why can't we have the best of both worlds? They get the co-ordinates
from the database dumps, but when a user clicks on the globe icon they
get the live page. We should be able to handle the load if our servers
are only hit when a user actually tries to read the page.
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