Fixing Assange and resistance I have preferences set to show cache pages but Assange also took 18 002 secs not 0 250 for me to access obviously bypassing cache but not edited in 3 hours while other articles showed cache page copies That s another performance shock for me one article bypasses cache I cleared my entire browser cache and then Assange showed the cache page copy As for broad resistance the Continuous Improvement movement Kaizen etc has warned People dislike change Most act like the boiling frog and sit while the temperature rises never moving until too late and Beyonce runs 26 seconds or Assange 18 I advised Jimbo to add More pillars where Performance becomes a major priority like Civility or NPOV rather than personal preference to see results in the same hour while they demand the cite tools still work You might know I ve had severe rejections trying to defuse essay wp PERF and explain how the Titanic sank because Don t worry thwarted other people from acting or improving the ship design included ample lifeboats rejected by others This year with the Costa Concordia in Italy passengers worried enough about the tilting ship to call land based police to complain the ship seemed damaged while crew pretended Don t worry Enough I think we are reaching critical mass to move forward here The next compromise consensus supports all parameters as demanded pronto and auto runs the quick citations with later promises to fix Citation core where possible and still support those cite tools which generate cite web calls and such It is a hideously complex upgrade with over 23 forks as cite book cite video cite document cite press release cite encyclopedia even citeweb or cite web but fixing the most used will cure the speed problems Plus the talk page already warns to deprecate surname1 for last1 where 3 fewer alias parameters could mean 2x faster for that parameter perhaps next year Beyond the complex fast Fcite templates the rapid cite quick runs 10x 12x faster so Assange can drop from 18 to 5 second edit preview I already saved some temporary revisions to prove Assange can reformat in 5 seconds Assange 03 32 15 August 2012 Wikid77 talk contribs 126 986 bytes 1 526 undid 2nd prior revision to compare performance confirm edit preview returns to 18 seconds when not using Template Cite quick Assange 03 28 15 August 2012 Wikid77 talk contribs 128 512 bytes 4 past tense verb has published Assange 03 23 15 August 2012 Wikid77 talk contribs 128 508 bytes 1 526 used Template Cite quick in 218 cases to reduce the edit preview or reformat time from average 18 seconds to 5 seconds Assange 23 56 14 August 2012 talk contribs m 126 982 bytes 1 Request for political asylum As long as several of us continue working together even part time I think we can solve the speed problems soon and set some precedents to solve other performance problems which people were warned don t worry about see my essay wp DOWORRY Naturally some people might be embarrassed to have fought the improvements so that has also slowed progress to keep a lower profile