Can you be a bit more concrete in what you are thinking of.
In general i think most users would find it unacceptable if part of the
page was only available after some slow (<1 min) amount of time after the
page rendered.
The closest things i can think of to this is image rendering (and
To be honest I don't fully understand the question. What you wrote
sounds like we have something like this already. Or did I get this
wrong?
On a very high "user experience" level unrelated to MediaWiki I do
have a suggestion: You could do it similar to how "like" features in
social media clients
Slow process, fast rendering
Imagine someone edits a page, and that editing hits a very slow
tag-function of some kind. You want to respond fast with something
readable, some kind of temporary page until the slow process has finished.
Do you chose to reuse what you had from the last revision, if