The discussion between WMF multimedia team<->Commons/GLAM communities
has happened in a few places (various project/user talkpages,
glamtools@, personal emails) and to be honest I've lost track of it, so
I'm not sure what the outcome was.
Uploads seem to have been restarted per
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Batch_uploading/NYP…
We just had a brief imagescaler outage today at approx. 11:20 UTC that
was investigated and NYPL maps were found to be the cause of the outage.
Besides the complete outage of imagescaling, Swift's (4Gbps) bandwidth
was saturated again, which would cause slowdowns and timeouts in file
serving as well.
I found 7396 NYPL Maps in GWToolset's queue under Fæ's account and
subsequently removed them as of approx. 11:51 UTC to restore site
stability.
I've notified the NYPL Maps project of a requested pause with:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Batch_uploading/NYP…
Regards,
Faidon