https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72420
Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] Component|General/Unknown |Extensions requests Product|MediaWiki |MediaWiki extensions Summary|Bring back the view counter |Turn hit counters (which |and make it optional |were removed in 1.25) into | |an extension --- Comment #11 from Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Subfader from comment #9) > (In reply to Chad H. from comment #7) > > What does this have to do with WP? > > I mean making such drastic decisions without thinking of the normal MW users. > > All developments on MW core are only done if it suits WP. Well, the hit counter has been disabled on WP since...ever. > As I said, if you would consider the needs of the normal MW users or if WP > useed the view counter, this would have been fixed long time ago rather than > removed completely. In my experience, whenever I'm trying to help someone make their site faster, disabling hit counters is one of the first things I tell them to do (as recommended on [[mw:User:Aaron_Schulz/How_to_make_MediaWiki_fast]]). ... In any case, I've adjusted the bug title to something a bit more actionable. I'll try to take a stab at it over the weekend... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
