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Every time I open any page in any wiki, I get between 8-11 HTML comments like this: ```lang=HTML <!-- Please do not use role attribute as CSS selector, it is deprecated. --> ``` This is wrong on so many levels: - It is adding a huge traffic overhead. Just in March 2021, we had 24B page views and this adds around 0.5KB to the payload => **12 TB extra traffic** a month. - It adds 0.5 to every parser cache and edge cache entry reducing their efficiency (they can store less entries in memory) - This doesn't count extra traffic in special pages (they are not counted as page views) or third party mediawiki instances. - Keep it in mind: We are enjoying an effortless and easy and cheap internet connection. Not everyone in the world is so lucky. - DOM of Wikipedia is the way to communicate with gadget developers. We have Tech News. We have mass message. They will very likely miss this. - It is in English, assumes gadget developers know English (or must know English). It sends a bad signal at best. We have been squeezing byte after byte from the default payload, please don't add such a large overhead.

Every time I open any page in any wiki, I get between 8-11 HTML comments like this: ```lang=HTML <!-- Please do not use role attribute as CSS selector, it is deprecated. --> ``` This is wrong on so many levels: - It is adding a huge traffic overhead. Just in March 2021, we had 24B page views and this adds around 0.5KB to the payload => **12 TB extra traffic** a month. - 12 TB according to [[https://www.websitecarbon.com/how-does-it-work/|CO2 calculator]] is equivalent to 10.3 ton of extra CO2. - It adds 0.5 to every parser cache and edge cache entry reducing their efficiency (they can store less entries in memory) - This doesn't count extra traffic in special pages (they are not counted as page views) or third party mediawiki instances. - Keep it in mind: We are enjoying an effortless and easy and cheap internet connection. Not everyone in the world is so lucky. - DOM of Wikipedia is the way to communicate with gadget developers. We have Tech News. We have mass message. They will very likely miss this. - It is in English, assumes gadget developers know English (or must know English). It sends a bad signal at best. We have been squeezing byte after byte from the default payload, please don't add such a large overhead.

Every time I open any page in any wiki, I get between 8-11 HTML comments like this: ```lang=HTML <!-- Please do not use role attribute as CSS selector, it is deprecated. --> ``` This is wrong on so many levels: - It is adding a huge traffic overhead. Just in March 2021, we had 24B page views and this adds around 0.5KB to the payload => **12 TB extra traffic** a month. - 12 TB according to [[https://www.websitecarbon.com/how-does-it-work/|CO2 calculator]] is equivalent to 10.3 ton of extra CO2. - It adds 0.5 to every parser cache and edge cache entry reducing their efficiency (they can store less entries in memory) - This doesn't count extra traffic in special pages (they are not counted as page views) or third party mediawiki instances. - Keep it in mind: We are enjoying an effortless and easy and cheap internet connection. Not everyone in the world is so lucky. - DOM of Wikipedia is the way to communicate with gadget developers. We have Tech News. We have mass message. They will very likely miss this. - It is in English, assumes gadget developers know English (or must know English). It sends a bad signal at best. We have been squeezing byte after byte from the default payload, please don't add such a large overhead.