2010/10/7 Aryeh Gregor
<simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com<simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com>
>

>
> > It.source uses many "list pages", daily updated by a bot, containing
> other
> > project-specific queries. They are "normal" pages, and their chronology
> is
> > bot useless and heavy. DynamicPageList extension could solve in part such
> a
> > useless overload of web space, but its output can't be finely tuned.
>
> Storing many revisions in history is not expensive.  Don't worry about
> it.  There's no way any users, even admins, will ever be permitted to
> update pages without leaving any history -- it violates the principle
> of reversibility that underlies how wikis work.  Is there some problem
> you have with these list pages other than the fact that they have lots
> of history that no one cares about?  If not, this is useful to read:
>

Thank you. Really I went back to
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesWikipediaIT.htm, and list
pages ("Elenco...") have a history of less than 2Mby each. You're right.

Alex
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