[WikiEN-l] Re: Article size consistency 32k

Sat May 21 21:40:03 UTC 2005

Fred Bauder wrote:
> 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.

The size of the article source text has little correlation with the size 
of the HTML output, so that argument is not relevant to this discussion.