On 21.11.2008, at 21:43, Bence Damokos wrote:
> - either possibly give e.g. sysops the right to create collections  
> that are over 500 pages (for legitimate books with more articles),  
> that can be downloaded by anyone: having saved collections would  
> mean that all these large collections can be safely cached

That would require a much deeper integration with the MediaWiki and  
its authorization mechanisms. Frankly, I'm not sure if this is  
desired, and I have no idea how this could be achieved in a general  
way, fitting to all MediaWiki installations. I guess it would require  
at least discussion with the broader MediaWiki community beforehand.

> - other nice idea would be to try to calculate the size (in pages  
> and megabytes) of the book if it has more than say a 100 wiki pages,  
> and before going into the CPU intensive layouting/rendering phase  
> display a warning that
>
> "Your book is going to be approximately 1234 pages long, with  
> pictures that is about 435 MB [...]

That would definitely be nice to have. But it will mean

a) a good amount of work, because achieving a somewhat meaningful  
estimation is by no means trivial
b) more CPU consumption, because calculating the estimate already  
needs a considerable amount of CPU time.

I've posted Brion Vibber's answer about the problem to ticket #373.

-- Johannes


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