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

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If the "factual inaccuracy" had anything to do with politics or 
religion, you shouldn't be too surprised.

-N

Josh wrote:
> 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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