We keep very good information on how long our pages take to render. In fact, you can see for yourself how long it took our server to make the page you're looking at.

View the source on any page and scroll all the way down to the bottom. You'll see a line like the following:
<!-- Build Version: rel-34-8 Build Date: 20080805144858 Server: b7,438 -->

That last number (438) is the time in milliseconds (thousands of a second) that the page took to create. 1000 is 1 second, so 438 means less than half a second to create the page. That's just on our end, though. It will take more time for your computer to make the request and for us to send you the response, but we do everything we can to minimize how long it takes to create a page.

"Slow" to us is more than 1.5 seconds. We have very few pages that take more than 1.5 seconds to generate. What's New and the Members pages on really busy sites are two of the biggest.

When it comes to editing pages, though, the real benchmark is the JavaScript performance of client computer, OS, and browser. It has very little to do with how our servers are performing. If editing a page seems very slow, there's probably other processes running on your machine that are slowing it down. Try restarting your browser or even your computer. I find that usually speeds things up for me.

Frankly, IE7's JavaScript performance is terrible compared to Firefox 3. I notice a difference every time I switch between the two.

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"i think we all use HTML alot more than LaTex"

I am not sure who "we" are in your statement. Clearly, it is not physicists and mathematicians, who use LaTex all the time. We have to prepare all our papers in LaTex. Working together with people online on a project requires using LaTex. Image conversion is an extremely poor solution, as it means a big hassle when going from the wiki stage to the actual manuscript. Too bad that you guys are not willing to change anything since the first requests in 2006 (!). If it is technically not feasible with your engine, well then say so - just repeating the good old "use html" or "use image conversion" really is not helpful.

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Anon, I presume you're talking about the invitation list shown on the "Invitations" page in your user profile, correct? If so, you can't delete those -- it's a historical record of every invitation you've ever sent on that wiki, and you will see these invitations forever.


Phil
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unless you wamt to pay for no ads

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i want answer

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this feature has being asked many times and wetpaint know about it the feature will come out in the future

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no probs

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