Comments on: Purging old logs for Musewiki

By: 7

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:18:09 +0000

http://www.musewiki.com/Nantes_Olympic_1999_%28gig%29

is it possible that THIS happens once you delete the old logs?

By: crazybobbles

crazybobbles — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:16:29 +0000

I understand your point, it’s a tough decision knowing that a lot of history will be erased but it’s all about the balance between that and ensuring things don’t go wrong on the wiki. I am still looking at other solutions of minimizing the database but none so far, feel free to research into it yourself.

By: Tene

Tene — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:05:55 +0000

I realise what the point is, I just think it’s unfair to take away what is effectively a mark of credit to those who made the contribution… It wouldn’t make much difference to those who are constantly on the recent changes page, but it’s akin to a “thanks” and a pat on the back to those who contribute more rarely, or have stopped doing so (e.g. Max/RaymondM, who did quite a bit early on).

By: crazybobbles

crazybobbles — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:59:32 +0000

That’s still not going to remove much of the bulk. Would lose about 10-20% of the changes but not enough.

The point of it all is to ensure the database is manageable and reducing the risk of something to break (you know how scary those mysql queries are when you’re dealing with big databases, though I can imagine muse board doing crazier stuff)

By: Tene

Tene — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:32:38 +0000

Isn’t it possible to merge consecutive changes made by the same person? I was thinking about that a while back….

If not, perhaps a feature request is in order.