I'm wondering if the {{filepath:}} addition is causing the problem
with images: <http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Random_site_slowness>
I'm not using it on this wikia, but maybe internally is doing some
kind of "parser" or something for every image in the page.
2007/12/25, DanTMan wrote:
>
> We've had <imagemap> for quite some time and it's been working out.
> {{filepath:}} is nice, but when we already have other options and people
> haven't been hardwired to depend on it yet, it's not worth the instability
> elsewhere.
> That is just a simple addition to MediaWiki, it's quite possible anyways to
> install 1.11 then just find the commit that added {{filepath:}} and add
> those changes to 1.11. Then we'd have 1.11, and filepath.
> ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
> -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
> -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
> -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
> Timothy J. Crowell wrote:
> I think {{filepath:}} alone is worth going with MediaWiki 1.12.
>
> -Timothy
>
> On Dec 25, 2007 1:24 AM, DanTMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to ask a bit of a question of the techs.
>
> What's the benefit of upgrading to MediaWiki 1.12?
>
> Checking on the issues with the upgrade recently I realized that many of
> the new features for Wikia that I listed are actually not included in the
> revision that Wikia has. I hunted down what ones, and made an edit to the
> page. This is the new list of new features:
> http://www.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki_1.12/new_features
>
> I hardly think that {{filepath:}} and a tweak to the title on history pages
> is enough to warrant going into an unstable alpha version of MediaWiki.
>
> My proposal is one of two options:
> * Revert to MediaWiki 1.11.0 - Why? It's more stable than an alpha version,
> there are less bugfixes to apply because you are running code which had new
> bugs added before your revision but fixed after, and it still has all the
> good features that we are seeing from the upgrade.
> * Upgrade further to a more recent revision of MediaWiki 1.12a - Why? We're
> missing nearly every advantage of 1.12 over 1.11 on our current revision and
> a more recent revision will be much more valuable for Wikia, more recent
> revisions also contain an alteration to the Parser, this alteration is the
> one that Angela mentioned that reduces the load that ParserFunctions and
> Templates cause, and could potentially reduce the current issues with a
> MW1.12a memory leak.
>
> Just my thoughts...
> --
> ~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
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