[Wikipedia-l] proposal to speed up Wikipedia

Tue Nov 5 22:28:13 UTC 2002

I've done some work at converting the Wikipedia to Postgres, but am not
there yet.  So, let's put that aside for now.

It seems that the wiki "source" is "interpreted" into html every single
time someone accesses a link.  That seems like a lot of overhead.

Given that for every time a change is made to the wiki source to a page,
several people "view" it, why not just regenerate the html only when
changes are made, and store it?  It would take more storage space, but
should be MUCH faster.  And if storage is an issue, I can donate some
hard drives...

The savings on the Recent Changes page alone should work wonders.

Jonathan

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