Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Why is WikiPedia so slow?

[Josh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I've pretty much stopped visiting wikipedia after an experience I had there a while back.

One of their articles contained an absolute factual inaccuracy, so I corrected it and left a nice note in the comments indicating why I had corrected it. A while later, someone changed it back with absolutely no explanation. So, I left a longer explanation of why it was wrong the way it was and corrected it again. Again, someone changed it back. This time, another individual reinstated my changes. And again, this guy undid them.. then had wiki issue a 24 hour ban on me!

I got the ban lifted in about an hour by emailing an admin with a full explanation, but the article contains the error to this day and the people at wiki seem to have an agenda to keep errors like it in place.

Basically, one of the admins strongly supports one belief system and seems to systematically modify articles and ban posters who disagree with him/her, regardless of factual accuracy. He even left messages on my "talk board" criticizing me for my beliefs after the fact and his talk board is full of similar stories from other posters.

Its their site and they have the right to run it as they please - but it drives me nuts that they claim "neutral point of view" as a goal when their own admins strongly support one POV over another and use administrative powers as a form of censorship.

Its still a great site to answer a quick "who, what where?" type question..but don't count on it for any sort of accuracy.

Josh.



Jonathan King wrote:

On 1/1/06, Christian M. Cepel <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
  

I've wondered for a long while...

Why does the Wikipedia index take so very long to load?  Is it just
heavy utilization?  I would think there would be significant interest
and support for Wikipedia that resources would be made available to
prevent latency.
    

So why didn't you just ask Wikipedia?

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Why_Wikipedia_runs_slow

OK, so maybe that wasn't so helpful an answer.  My guess is that it's
partly really heavy utilization; something that grows this fast and is
this large must always be on the verge of not having enough hardware. 
Now, I'm not a database jockey, but one could wonder whether MySQL
itself (or their specific implementation) plays a role.  I know that
wikipedia slowness seems to come and go...

jking

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