[Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

Fri Oct 9 23:22:18 UTC 2009

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Happy-melon <happy-melon at live.com> wrote:
[snip]
> It's not just that.  On a technological level, considerable sections of the
> FlaggedRevs code are called on *every* page view, whether the page has
> FlaggedRevs behaviour or not.  Even if it's eventually saying "no, carry on
> normally" in 99% of the cases, the question is still asked.  And asked on
> every one of those six billion pageviews.  When the answer is "yes, we need
> to do something special here", of course, the load that the FlaggedRevs

Completely hogwash.

The overwhelming majority of those "six billion pageviews" never
touches mediawiki at all— they're satisfied out of the frontend
caches.

Not that flaggedrevs doesn't have performance considerations, but
you'd do well to keep the hyperbole down a notch.

...and it's not like we're talking about some extension which was only
ever designed for tiny wikis (as many extensions are), dewp and enwp
were always primary targets for this extension from inception.