Either way you would get a lover load by just having admins on
lower-traffic projects run it rather than the admins on en. since
there are fewer of them, fair or not.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:56:03 +0100, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
Even if you dont enable that for en. due to load
problems, could you
at least enable it for smaller wikipedias like is. pretty hard to bog
down the DB on a 4MB database, even with the most intensive queries,
would be a great maintenence tool.
The argument against this has always been that with Special:AskSQL
enabled on any Wikimedia project, you can access any DB for any other
Wikimedia project. Personally, I don't know how, but maybe the relevant
SQL syntax element could be filtered out to prevent this?
Timwi
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