The issue is always download speed when we serve a diverse international
audience and at least make noises about serving the poor and the third
world. Serving up articles over 100kb long with several images each over
200kb will basically stop a slower computer with limited memory operating
with a modem in its tracks, sometimes even requiring a reboot. Essentially
the site becomes unusable.
Fred
From: "JAY JG" <jayjg(a)hotmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:07:56 -0400
To: wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Article size consistency 32k
From: "David 'DJ' Hedley"
<spyders(a)btinternet.com>
Unless we're living in a world of 56K internet still, I think 32K could
become at least 50K. Even articles on albums by Eminem and so forth are
getting above 32K - Giving that limit is slowly even limiting the growth of
good articles. If an article grows above that it should be allowed to grow,
unless it is obviously repeating itself.
As far as I know the issue was never with download speeds, and currently
most of the concerns are stylistic, rather than technical.
Jay.
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