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) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

On 22/09/10 04:19, Pierre-Olivier Latour wrote: I don't think you are paying wikipedia for a SLA right ? I'm sure they will update us when it is sorted, and in their own time (as it should be). Best Regards Jools

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Pierre-Olivier Latour <pol(a)cooliris.com> wrote: 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. - Carl _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api