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In Addition To My Blog Entry About Wiki War 2

Swert

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Here is the official reason why:

 

My server space is at 86% full. I need to find a way to cut it down. Adding to the database would not help.

 

It's getting to the point where I may have to dump old image revisions again.

 

So yeah, please respect my wishes as to why I don't want Wiki War 2.

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Vartemp

Partly why I didn't want to be involved this year.

 

Also, I suppose deleting old versions of images won't hold back the DB from overloading forever. Correct? We will eventually have another Great Transition?

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Toa Nidhiki05

Oh dear, not again... The first GT was horrible.

 

And I trust your judgment on WWII, as much as I would have liked to have it. I hope the rest of the participants will as well. :)

 

-TN05

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Nuhrii the Metruan

Every edit increases the database exponentially. Say you have a very long page, but you edit only one word in that page and hit "save" - MediaWiki will store the ENTIRE PAGE as it was before your edit and it will store the ENTIRE PAGE as it is now. (At least that is my understanding of the software.) Do that several times, and overload is what you get.

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Sumiki
Why can't extremely old and obsolete versions of these pages simply be pruned? It wouldn't hurt anything, would it?
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