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Hello, I wanted to write here a pair of ideas I published time ago about
traffic, and also a comment about the new skin. Opinnions will be
apreciated, thanks!

About traffic: do you think it's a good idea to add a JavaScript mode that
only downloads the content of the page? Something like, instead of
downloading all the menu again (links to new article, recent changes and
such) download only the code of the article (using the already installed
trick action=raw) and after this would be interpeted in the personal
computer, so it would save work to the servers, specially time, but also a
bit in data sent.

About that idea people commented that probably it would be slower due to
some problem with cachés (honestly I didn't understand that comment, I know
what are cachés, but don't know where is the problem) and with nested
templates, but one of them said I could comment it at wikitech anyways. As I
didn't know about that list and hadn't this e-mail account, I didn't
comment, but now I remembered it and I am posting it here. Hope it is a
correct place too.

The new idea is that action=raw can be applied to special pages too. It can
be useful for monitoring bots (or there is already a system for that?)

And concerning to the skin, if I'm not wrong someone posted that it would
look better if it was more compact and left more space to the actual page,
like grouping all the links to the right in only one column. If there is a
votation about that, I will vote yes. But that wasn't the important thing...
today I noticed that if the text is very long and cannot be wrapped by lack
of spaces, it will overflow the page and go onto the links. That problem
already happened with pre tags, but it wasn't so problematic since the skin
was Monobook and the links were at the left, it only made the page wider.

An example can be seen at
http://factualnonsense.wikia.com/index.php?title=Rolling_your_head_on_the_keyboard_page.&oldid=2678


I know that case is excepcional, but anyways something should be done about
that. There may be problems with serious content.

And that's all. Maybe I'm just oversizing it all and posting ideas that will
be impractical, but I wanted to know opinnions and if it would truly be
impractical. Sincerely, Nethac DIU.

UPDATE: I forgot... they also said me that there was already a project for
that, but only working for Firefox and requiring it to upload with the rest
of the PHP files... it was at http://wikiwyg.org/wysi but apparently it got
deleted, now it looks like a server for sell...
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