[Foundation-l] Re: Should we go into read-only mode during peak periods to de...

Magnus Manske magnus.manske at web.de
Thu Jan 20 22:05:19 UTC 2005


Anthere schrieb:

> I fear that these projects takes too little of our resources to really 
> make a difference Danny.
>
> The other point I would make is that one really "feel" the difference 
> when USA is waking up :-(
> During mornings here, wikipedia is perfectly editable.
>
> Rather than making all sites unavailable at peak hours, would it be 
> possible to imagine turns ?
>
> Other ideas ?


We get most edits from logged-in users, right? And generation of 
logged-in user pages takes more time than just dumping pages from the 
squids for anons, right?

So, how about multi-level miser mode! Go through the steps until the 
site is workable:
1. Everyone gets anon pages; except logged-in users get logged-in edit pages
2. Anons and a randomly chosen user set are prohibited from editing for, 
say, one hour (includes newly generated accounts to prevent spontaneous 
edit-sock-puppet-generation)
3. Read-only-mode for everyone

Alternatively, we could in turn put en&de (for example) and all projects 
*except* those in read-only. Or is that what you meant with "turns"?

Magnus



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