On Don, 2003-01-30 at 12:17, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
> > Well, an update (counter increment) comes with every page view, and we
> > often have several edits per minute.
>
> What's the wikipedia-purpose of a counter increment on every page
> view? Just to know which pages are popular? We could get the same
> information easily enough from a log analysis program, which I could
> offload to a less-busy server. Or we could just do without the
> information easily enough. It's not really that useful. Or am I
> missing something?
>
> Even if this is thought by Jan and others to be only a small part of
> the performance problem, it's probably philosophically good for us to
> get in the habit of thinking "unless this feature is free or really
> really useful, we should do without it". That is, we already have a
> bad case of feature-itis, and taking a hardline on such things might
> be very helpful.
Yeah, the counters are wildly inaccurate anyway because they've been
disabled so often. Let's just get rid of them entirely. A most popular
ranking by URL would still be neat though.
Regards,
Erik
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