Daniel Barrett wrote: > Is there any way to disable MediaWiki's limitation of "one active request per > browser instance"? > > In our MediaWiki site, the #1 source of user confusion (by far) is this > limit. When a user encounters a slow wiki page and clicks the browser "Stop" > button, the user now cannot view any other wiki pages in that browser > window, because the previous request hasn't completed. As a result, the user > believes the wiki has crashed and files a support ticket. > > Now, the user can simply close and reopen the browser to get a new session > cookie, but in practical terms, many end-users don't know this. And even when > they DO know it, they believe this behavior is a MediaWiki bug, which breeds > distrust of the system, and costs us more time explaining why it isn't a bug. > > Why do we have slow-rendering wiki articles? Because some of them, by design, > retrieve data from external systems. These retrievals can legitimately take > 10 seconds or longer, and they provide VERY high business value so they're > not going away. We tried making the requests asynchronous, using AJAX, but > this does not avoid the limit. > > So, what is the appropriate way to disable the "one request per browser" > limitation? We are not worried about individual users abusing the system > with multiple requests: this is a private wiki within a corporation. > > Thanks, > DanB
There's no such limit in MediaWiki. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
