Forwarding this from wikipedia-l. I should add: why stop at 256*100
bytes? When I originally instituted it, the limit of 5 gave a maximum
text size of about 30 MB. Perhaps we should have a limit of 2 MB text
size, plus some kind of direct check for circular inclusions.
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Subject: Re: 5 templates per page limit
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:52:22 +1000
From: Tim Starling <ts4294967296-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ(a)public.gmane.org>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l-T31ubCBy5U6GglJvpFV4uA(a)public.gmane.org
Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc
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Guillaume wrote:
Hi all,
There a security limit that prevent to use more than 5 times the same
template in the same page.
Waiting to found a better solution, I'd like to set this limite to 100 for
template less than 256 bytes.
(256 * 100 = maximum 25 Kb)
I can do it myself in source, but no objection ?
Aoineko
You also need to implement article text caching, otherwise 100
inclusions of the same template will require 100 identical database
queries. Why is this on wikipedia-l not wikitech-l?
-- Tim Starling