Re: [Wikitech-l] Caching, was: Re: wikipedia is one of the slower sites on the web

2010-07-30 Thread David Goodman
hing, but > fine for "Hello, {{USERNAME}}, welcome to Wikipedia!"  As long as we > keep it down to preg_replace(), or better yet require it to be one big > single-pass strtr() for all such settings, it should have no > noticeable performance impact even if we add lots and lot

Re: [Wikitech-l] Pending Changes UI issues

2010-10-09 Thread David Goodman
p and fundamental > flaw. > > MZMcBride > > > > ___________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/

Re: [Wikitech-l] Javascript

2011-02-17 Thread David Goodman
> This Javascript is going to rearrange the > left margin menu, so I'm likely to hit the > wrong link when I want to click there. > > > -- >   Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) >   Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > > > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Categories 2.0

2011-05-13 Thread David Goodman
r arises from such discussions--see WP:Categories for Discussion at the enWP for examples. At present they decision of whether or not to make a category is decided by the vague concept of presumed usefulness together with the inapplicable one of political correctness; there would be much