[WikiEN-l] Article size consistency 32k

Sat May 21 21:56:05 UTC 2005

Geoff Burling (llywrch at agora.rdrop.com) [050522 07:28]:

> It's not only the third world that needs to rely on dialup; the majority
> of Internet users in the US -- which, last I checked, was still counted as
> one of the developed countries -- still have dialup connections (like
> yours truly).
> And the primary problem I have with accessing information from Wikipedia
> is not the article length (although a concise well-organized article is
> always better than a long discursive one, no matter the amount of detail
> contained), but the size & number of images.

Then you need to get MediaWiki 1.5 installed locally and write the user
preference code to switch all images off ;-)

- d.