2010/9/22 Carl (CBM) <cbm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:
I am not a Wikimedia developer. But I can point you
at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25238 , which is the
bugzilla page for this issue. It seems that the issue is being looked
into as we speak, although who knows how long it will take to isolate
the cause of the performance drop.
Tim figured out that the ImageAnnotator gadget on Commons was most
likely to be at fault, and re-enabled action=parse on all wikis except
Commons at 08:23 UTC today. At 10:07 ImageAnnotator was disabled and
at 11:53 I re-enabled action=parse on Commons as well. I'm keeping a
close watch on the servers today and may have to disable stuff again
if they go crazy again like they did yesterday.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)