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Split hitcounter feature into an extension
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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.

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Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:59 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.
• bzimport set Reference to bz32789.
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DanielFriesen created this task.Dec 3 2011, 10:58 PM
waldyrious added a comment.Dec 11 2011, 10:52 PM

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.

hashar added a comment.Jan 6 2012, 4:20 PM

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.

hashar added a comment.Dec 8 2012, 10:45 PM

We want to keep this feature in core since that is used by almost any wiki setup.

saper edited projects, added MediaWiki-extensions-HitCounters; removed MediaWiki-General.Aug 31 2015, 8:04 PM
saper set Security to None.
saper mentioned this in T110655: Extension HitCounters: Add PostgreSQL support.Aug 31 2015, 8:07 PM
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