Aaron Cannon wrote:
Hello Marcello and all. The idea of a wiki is a great one! The only problem I have with it is that it is really slow. How are you planning on dealing with that? Perhaps a daily static dump of the Gutenberg Namespace could be made and visitors could be referred to that. Updates wouldn't show up immediately, but it might not matter in most cases.
ibiblio is slow currently. They say they are moving to new servers at the end of summer. That may alleviate the problem. Currently only about 4% of requests are accessing the pages we are going to put on the wiki. Also, MediaWiki is slower if you are logged in. If you are not logged in, most pages will come out of the page cache. Of course, the page cache will not fill before the public starts using the wiki. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org