[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] two suggestions

Wed May 8 23:17:17 UTC 2002

There needs to a series of mirrors to show static pages, and wikipedia.com
only used for Recent Changes and editing. Their would still be a lot of
load on wikipedia.com but not as much, and if you just have to look
something up it would be easier. The mirrors could update about once or
twice a day.

School ends on the 24th, hopefully I'll be able to implement it this
summer. It would just need something to automatically produce static pages
which the mirrors would somehow be informed of what to download or it
could all be bziped up, whatever. I'll try to make it in as seperate files
as possible so it doesn't have to actually be implemented until its ready
and wanted.

Ian Monroe
http://ian.webhop.org

On Wed, 8 May 2002, kband at www.llamacom.com XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> =?iso-8859-1?q?Chuck=20Smith?= wrote:
> >
> > Improving performance on English server:  when the
> > server reaches a certain threshhold of activity could
> > we replace the text of all the Special pages with:
> >
> > "This page is currently inaccessible because of the
> > immensive amount of traffic we're getting.  Wikipedia
> > is just too popular."
>
> Removing Recent Changes functionality removes most of the
> functionality for me as an editor...taking it down would be almost as
> bad as the current molasses we're in.
>
> A much better suggestion would be to fix the code. My completely
> unhelpful suspicion is that it's PHP's fault. But I'm a perl bigot, so
> take it for what it's worth. I'm just not surprised we're having
> problems.
>
> --tc
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