I think it'd be nice if a URL parameter (or some other means) could control which server a page is served by. On Wikimedia wikis, sometimes there's a specific server that's problematic, and as far as I know, there isn't any way currently to tell the servers (or MediaWiki) to use a particular server when outputting a page. This can make debugging more difficult.
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Severity: enhancement
Toolserver does this by allowing to call a server directly.
eg. http://wolfsbane.toolserver.org/%7Ekrinkle/wikimedia-svn-search/ or http://ortelius.toolserver.org/%7Ekrinkle/wikimedia-svn-search/
Perhaps we can do this and give them a secure.wikimedia-like url structure.
At the bottom of every page, there is:
mw.config.set({"wgBackendResponseTime":139,"wgHostname":"mw1241"});That allows you to figure out which server you hit, but not specify a specific one.
This task probably isn't resolvable. The cost in setting up such a system probably isn't worth the benefit and it would probably leave us more open to attacks.