Wikitravel:5 May 2005

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[edit] Technical update

I twiddled two things on the site this morning:

  1. One of the big differences between wikitravel.org and the Wikimedia servers is that they have a whole bunch of servers, linked up with memcached. Since we have only one server, we don't use this part of the MediaWiki code. There's a built-in stub to simply ignore caching, but my suspicion is that cache misses due to the dummy cache tool might have something to do with our excess load problem. So, I wrote a caching extension that uses the Cache_Lite PEAR package. It works pretty well, and it even seems to speed things up a bit.
  2. As mentioned on 2 May 2005, I'd like to enable the "RC Patrol" feature in Special:Recentchanges, but I think it might interfere with our caching strategy. I'm going to leave it turned off until I make sure that it doesn't.

--Evan 08:38, 5 May 2005 (EDT)

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