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Bug 32789 - Split hitcounter feature into an extension
Split hitcounter feature into an extension
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 29145
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Reported: 2011-12-03 22:58 UTC by Daniel Friesen
Modified: 2012-12-08 22:45 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Friesen 2011-12-03 22:58:48 UTC 
We ship MediaWiki with a hitcounter feature. This feature basically makes an update to the database on every page view just to count how many people have viewed the page. And our default out-of-the-box settings have it enabled and set to 1 so that every single page view makes the most inefficient possible update.

Frankly I can't believe we ship MediaWiki with a feature of minimal use that reduces the wiki's performance.

This feature sounds perfect to split out into an extension for those who want it.
Comment 1 Waldir 2011-12-11 22:52:23 UTC 
I participate in many small wikis where performance isn't really such an issue, and the hit counter is a nice feedback. If this is split into an extension, it probably would be a good idea to have it bundled with the installer.
Comment 2 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2012-01-06 16:20:22 UTC 
> Frankly I can't believe we ship MediaWiki with a feature of minimal use that
reduces the wiki's performance.

That is the case for 99% of wiki installation. For the other kind of installations, just disabled it.
Comment 3 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2012-12-08 22:45:42 UTC 
We want to keep this feature in core since that is used by almost any wiki setup.
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