Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-01-24/Technology report

In addition to allowing MediaWiki to be used for evil, JavaScriptDistiller is also quite a bit faster than JSMin. As Trevor Parscal reported on bug 26791: As you can see, distilled evil provides great performance improvements. Reach Out to the Truth 02:18, 25 January 2011 (UTC)


 * (I've hidden all but the two main rows of your table for the benefit of those who wouldn't know which they were supposed to be comparing. Hope you don't mind.) Yes, it's quicker on the server - so fewer server kitties will perish compressing the files after updates - but at a slight cost to the first time visitor. - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 17:48, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Indisputable improvement ...
As well as an indisputable number of copyvios still being uploaded. We must add a "not sure" and/or "all rights reserved" option to the upload wizard. I simply do not understand how this idea has been rejected multiple times. When will the WMF request a copyvio study to augment this usability study? / ƒETCH COMMS  /  22:02, 31 January 2011 (UTC)