David A. Wheeler wrote:
If it's a choice between having a working
wikipedia, and
having the bells & whistles, I think working is the better plan.
I agree completely.
We've been advised by... I'm sorry, but I forgot who it was, but he's
the author of a well-known book on this sort of thing... that
separating webserving and database should be a huge win. If that's
right, then we should be good to go after the new server is installed
this weekend, and after some time spent getting it into service.
In general, I think that it is absolutely true that responsiveness is
more important than frills. I have never thought of the feature of
links appearing differently depending on whether or not the article
exists as a frill, but I suppose it is. We could conceivably abandon
that and any other feature that requires "on the fly" anything, and
make the site very fast.
But it's probably better, for some features, to throw hardware at it.
--Jimbo