Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Unimplemented tasks: Difference between revisions

: There are two main reasons I didn't go with that approach.

:# The intersection is calculated every time the page is viewed, which means two queries for each view. That will fail under loads far lighter than MediaWiki will otherwise normally handle.

:# The data doesn't show up as a MediaWiki page, so it doesn't have a talk page, isn't editable, doesn't show up in the "What links here" list, isn't trivially linkable, doesn't support MediaWiki templates, doesn't match the user's skin, doesn't take advantage of the caching and tuning done for MW, etc.

: My original attempt was to put the entire list in one page, but Apache gave me an Internal Server Error when I tried feeding MediaWiki a 828KB chunk of wikicode. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 22:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)