Hello,
One update regarding this.
We enabled using the new table for Special:Tags in several large wikis
which caused a massive improvement in the performance of the page. For
example loading Special:Tags on Wikidata used to take around a minute and
now it takes less than a second. English Wikipedia is down from ten seconds
to less than one and so on.

There is a lot of work needs to be done and maintenance scripts is being
ran to backpopulate the ct_tag_id column in change_tag table (If you want
to follow the progress, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193873) and
then we need start reading from the new table in mediawiki and finally we
can drop ct_tag column entirely. If you want to help in review, writing
code or anything, just let me know.

Best

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 at 15:15, Léa Lacroix <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Our team is refactoring some code around the change tags on Recent
> Changes. This can impact people using the database on ToolForge.
>
> Currently, the tags are stored in the table change_tag in the column
> ct_tag.
>
> In the next days, we will add a column ct_tag_id with a unique identifier
> for these tags. A new table change_tag_def that will store the tag id,
> the message, and more information like how many times this tag is used on
> the local wiki.
>
> On the long term, we plan to drop the column ct_tag since the tag will be
> identified with ct_tag_id.
>
> This change will happen on:
> - French Wikipedia: Monday July 2nd
> - All other wikis: from July 9th
>
> If there is any problem (trouble with saving edits, slow down of recent
> changes…) please  create a subtask of T185355
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185355> or contact Ladsgroup
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup>.
>
> Cheers,
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