As a wild guess, I'd say that's probably a caching issue.
Powers &8^]
-----Original Message-----
From: Risker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday 6 September 2013 13:32
To: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the
participationof women within Wikimedia projects.
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Changing the Chelsea Manning article (and how women
were shouted down)
On 6 September 2013 11:55, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sep 5, 2013 6:55 PM, "Risker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Secondly, redirects are expensive - not to those in the Western world with
fast computers and high speed internet, but to those who are on dial-up or
have comparatively high lag times because of distance (lots of people at
Wikimania had difficulty getting good access to Wikipedia during their stay
in Hong Kong, for example). A redirect means that the reader must first
load up the "redirect" page and then follow the redirect instruction and
wind up on the intended page. I don't think we pay nearly enough attention
to the comparatively poor performance from WMF that our Asian, African, and
South American colleagues experience; we're terribly spoiled.
that's not how redirects work on Wikipedia. (at least for a redirect
directly to a page with content. double redirects, i.e. a redirect to a
redirect which then points to a real page it is more like how you described.
but we have bots and special: pages for fixing double redirects)
we serve a 200 with a little hatnote that says it was a redirect and
otherwise serve the same content as if they had visited the canonical name
directly. i.e. we don't currently send a 30x to the canonical name and the
alternative name remains in the URL in the user's location bar.
the actual timing difference client-side should be smaller than anything a
human could detect. (or too small for a computer to notice? idk if anyone's
done a study)
-Jeremy
Yeah, I keep hearing those excuses for performance problems, Jeremy. It
takes longer to serve up the original page here in North America on a fast
connection - enough so that it is noticeable on a normal computer.
Risker/Anne
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