https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39667
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Bug #: 39667
Summary: Divide wikis into database lists by approximate size
for performance engineering
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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There are a number of bugs in which small wikis are unfairly impacted by the
performance constraints of large wikis. For example, many Special pages have
been disabled across all Wikimedia wikis (cf. bug 15434). A small wiki such as
ch.wikipedia.org, with 151 content pages, is treated the same as a wiki with
over four million content pages. This doesn't make any sense.
This situation is unacceptable. A small wiki should not see a reduced user
experience because of the existence of (almost entirely unrelated) wikis that
have millions of content pages. We know the approximate sizes involved, so we
should be able to safely and sanely tier these wikis (and then periodically
check those tiers for accuracy and appropriateness). While we all wish that
every wiki could be treated equally, it doesn't make any sense to punish small
wikis indefinitely due to circumstances over which they have no control or
involvement (i.e., an explosion in growth on a sibling project).
Some stats are available at
<https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Wiki_server_assignments>. There are other
lists at Meta-Wiki, I believe. And I can query the *links tables for size if
that's deemed necessary.
As far I as understand this, step one would be to make a set of groupings and
then create individual wiki lists. Or perhaps just have a small.dblist or a
large.dblist and add conditional statements based on that?
It looks like a small.dblist may already exist, even? Is that a list of small
wikis (<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/small.dblist> doesn't load for me)?
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