User talk:NightWing

Previewing your edits

Welcome!

Great to see you've started contributing to our wiki. It's really appreciated! To make sure that we can continue to enjoy this wiki in the future, I would like to ask you to try to minimise the number of edits. Every time someone saves an edit, the entire article is saved in history and thus the database. In order to keep the server load and database size to a minimum, please consider following these tips:

• Do not edit an article on a per-section base (by clicking the [edit] link next to a header). If you would like to make edits in multiple sections of the same article, simply edit the entire article by clicking the Edit button at the top of the page.
• Preview your edit(s) before saving, by clicking the preview button. Especially check for red links to non existing articles (usually the result of typos) and syntax such as images or tables.

Please do not stop contributing though! Like I said, it's greatly appreciated. But please do try to use those tips. In the end we'll all benefit from it ;-)

Thanks! Gijs 12:36, 19 August 2012 (EDT)

H, just saw this, and knowing that I am also guilty of doing that, I have to say that over the last two weeks, flightgear.org and both, the forums and the wiki have been unavailable for several hours - that's why I still personally prefer to make tiny and frequent edits, rather than huge single edits, which may be lost otherwise. That being said, I do agree with all the suggestions and can perfectly understand why we should not be doing that, but over the last couple of weeks the server performance hasn't really been too impressive, and given the recent release, this probably isn't going to improve...--Hooray 12:42, 19 August 2012 (EDT)

What I always do is to make my edits and Ctrl-copy the entire article before pressing "Preview" or "Save". If the server fails, I can simply paste the article in some text file and store it on my computer till the server is back up.

The forum is on a different server than the wiki. For the wiki server there was indeed a little CPU problem on the first days of this month, due to a not very optimised script that was running. Also note that we've been running the screenshotcontest on this server; that resulted in a large increment in traffic over the past month. I expect that to be gone in a few more days.

Please let me know whenever it fails, so I can see what's going (wr)on(g).

Gijs 15:48, 19 August 2012 (EDT)

Hi Gijs, Ok I'll minimize the edits to keep the database as light as possible.

Thanks for everything. NightWing 12:55, 19 August 2012 (EDT)