Problem: The single biggest issue currently plaguing the English Wiktionary is Lua out-of-memory errors on a small number of pages, such as a, C, in, la, si, se, etc. Wiktionary users have spent hundreds of hours trying to work around MediaWiki limits, but have not been able to solve the issue in all cases. In the future, this issue will only get worse as more content is added to Wiktionary.
Proposed solution: Add an allow list (aka whitelist) of pages that are given memory above the current 50MB limit. I propose phased limits, e.g. up to 100 pages can be placed on an allow list with a 100MB limit, and up to 50 pages can be placed on an allow list with a 200MB limit. This is a small number of pages and should not materially affect the load on MediaWiki servers.
Who would benefit: All English Wiktionary users.
More comments: MedaWiki developers have so far been unresponsive to requests to help fix this issue. The lack of responsiveness and unwillingness to take this issue seriously on the part of MediaWiki developers has eroded trust between the English Wiktionary and MediaWiki. Please do not dismiss this request out of hand as has happened with previous similar requests.
