Difference between revisions of "User talk:GreenReaper"

Latest revision as of 17:56, 23 August 2009

Hello GreenReaper,

thanks for restructuring the mediawiki.org page on DPL. Indeed DPL is in mediawiki SVN and I recently got commit access rights there. But still wikinews is using the OLD version ('intersection').

Did you have a look at my copy of the German Wikipedia? http://sesam.dyndns.info:60300/dewiki/index.php/Wikipedia:Hauptseite

I think it is the best prove of concept I have done so far. I want to proceed in two (three) directions:

• convince authors that it is worth having DPL available in Wikipedia
• convince technicians and admins that it it can be tolerated from a technical point of view.
• create a showcase of DPL use within wikinews - to get installed there one should be able to show what can be done better with the newe version

I am looking for assistance in both (all three) regards.

Would you / can you set up a copy of the English Wikipedia and do a similar demo as I have cerated for the German Wikipedia? I think German is not widely enough understood...

Or, alternatively, could you do the same with English wikinews?

Maybe you could do some performance measurements? I did a lot to make DPL faster. For example:

• Code is only loaded if there is a DPL statement in a page
• DPL accepts the Parser Cache of MW if desired
• DPL comes with its own additional cache which can even survive editing of pages containing a DPL statement (if that statement is not touched)
• limits are configurable
• the size of a SQL result set is only calculated if %TOTALPAGES% is used in the header
• flipping through result pages is a lot easier now and more efficient (backward scrolling is supported)

Any help is welcome! I feel that DPL can become a great enhancement for wikis and it is reaching maturity now. Your wiki looks quite prfessional and that is why I am asking you for help...

Gero 16:56, 23 August 2009 (UTC)