On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Robert Rohde <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I recall, someone did an analysis and reported that people click on
> "edit" more than twice as often as they actually save an edit.  If
> half of all database text were abandoned drafts, that would be dumb.
> Would WMF come tumbling down if the database doubled in size?
> Probably not, but it would still be a dumb use of resources.

Hmm, you might be right, if the drafts are saved too aggressively.
Expiring them after a while would make sense.  Also note, though, that
we can save drafts locally in recent browsers (localStorage is even
supported in IE8) and avoid pushing them to the server often -- I
don't know if Drafts does this or not.

_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Reply via email to