On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:49 AM, John Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Could we add a logged-in-reader mode, for people who are infrequent > contributors but wish to be logged in for the prefs. > > They could be served a slightly old cached version of the page when > one is available for their prefs. e.g. if the cached version is less > than a minute old. > The down side is that if they see an error, it may already be fixed. > OTOH, if the page is being revised frequently, the same is likely to > happen anyway. The text could be stale before it hits the wire due to > parsing delay.
That could work on the first 3-5 wikipedias by number of visitors, for the rest you are most likely to serve VERY old versions (or just re-parse the page if you put a low threshold). Strainu _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
