Last modified: 2014-02-18 13:18:46 UTC
There are a few gadgets enabled by default on Wikidata.org. They should be reviewed for possible performance improvements.
Right now the default gadgets are: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Search.js - for anyone using Vector or Monobook https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-AuthorityControl.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-CommonsMedia.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-imagelinks.js https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-RfDHelper.js - enabled for anyone with the 'delete' right.
I did a code review of all gadgets that are enabled by default. [[d:MediaWiki:Gadget-RfDHelper.js]] is executed when viewing [[d:Wikidata:Requests for deletions]] only. [[d:MediaWiki:Gadget-CommonsMedia.js]] does not do anything on Item pages since media files are already linked to Commons. [[d:MediaWiki:Gadget-imagelinks.js]] is very well written and very fast. [[d:MediaWiki:Gadget-Search.js]] is a bit "hacky" but very simple and very fast. [[d:MediaWiki:Gadget-AuthorityControl.js]] does have a bottleneck (nested loops). On very big Item pages it takes about half a second. I made a change request on the talk page.
(In reply to comment #3) > [[d:MediaWiki:Gadget-RfDHelper.js]] is executed when viewing > [[d:Wikidata:Requests for deletions]] only. I only thought about this when you said that, but the main portion of the script is only executed on [[d:WD:RFD]], however the gadget has a dependency upon 'mediawiki.language', which is loaded on every page even though it isn't used. We can fix that by wrapping the script in a mw.loader.using call, which I'll do today.
(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #4) I left you a message at [[d:MediaWiki talk:Gadget-RfDHelper.js]]. The bottleneck I found at [[d:MediaWiki:Gadget-AuthorityControl.js]] got fixed. Since there are more nested loops in that script I did some more benchmarking. But all these loops are short (in most cases only 1 iteration). Now the bottleneck is when the anchor elements are added and the page is re-rendered. But this can't be avoided obviously. I will close this as fixed for now. Please re-open if I should look into other gadgets or new versions of existing ones.
