On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well if I'm setting up an internal wiki for 10 people, saving space may be > beneficial over supporting 250+ languages no one speaks. > At the moment the *entire* languages/ dir in trunk comes to... 43 megabytes. (Not counting the complete copy of every file in the .svn subdir in a subversion checkout; people in this situation apparently are working from tarballs so that's not there.) With English only.... 1.2 megabytes, for a saving of ~42 MB. The simple expedient of gzipping the message files would reduce it to 13 megabytes, for a saving of ~30MB with *no* loss in functionality. Of course, your users could fill up 30-40 megabytes' worth of text and images in just a few minutes, so even the savings of removing them all is pretty piddly... If there is a compelling reason to reduce the size, switching to a gzip-friendly format would be simpler: almost as much savings as removing the files, but without losing anything. -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
