FWIW, I didn't remove it because it was slow on enwiki, but because the queries sucked and it doesn't scale. Just because a query is fast doesn't mean it's efficient...just means your dataset is small.
-Chad On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Siebrand Mazeland <[email protected]> wrote: > A motivated developer can take the code and create an extension out of it. > There are over 1000 known extensions that add features not present in > MediaWiki core for whatever reason. > > Calling people or people's actions ignorant is not helpful, in my opinion, > Stip, so I kindly request you to make constructive contributions. > > Op 6 apr. 2013 om 14:07 heeft Stip <[email protected]> het volgende > geschreven: > >> On our wiki it is a very useful feature too. Removing it from the software >> just because it makes no sense on the en wikipedia is kind of ignorant. >> >> Am 05.04.2013 16:49, schrieb Federico Leva (Nemo): >>> The page has been removed because it took several seconds to load on the >>> English Wikipedia. <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41078> >>> Niklas has already fixed the link, it needs to be backported to 1.21. >>> <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46719> >>> >>> On the "uselessness" of the special page: sure, on en.wiki it's 120k names, >>> but e.g. on 178 Wikipedias it's a single very useful page of less than 50 >>> names... <http://wikistats.wmflabs.org/display.php?t=wp&s=ausers_asc> > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
