Could we get any update on this? It's been quite a few hours already since the feature
was turned off. Thanks.
Could you at least re-enable parsing of entire pages? I believe they should be in the
server caches, so hopefully that usage scenario wasn't causing the overload.
For instance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&prop=text%7Cimages&p…
On Sep 22, 2010, at 2:49 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
This afternoon (UTC), the API got overloaded for a
while; you may have
noticed slow responses or HTTP 504s. Tim tried to solve this by
disabling action=parse, which worked surprisingly well. This means
action=parse is disabled for now and will remain disabled until I
figure out what was going on at the time of the outage.
In the meantime, the API will act as though the action=parse module
doesn't exist, so you'll get errors along the lines of "unknown value
for parameter action: 'parse'".
I'll re-enable action=parse once I'm relatively confident it won't
cause the entire API to melt down again.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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