Thanks for the heads-up. During the Berlin hackathon a few people were
asking to get new accounts created, and I (in person) asked someone to
make them as a favor to me. So that is the reason for a few of the
account creations.
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Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
On 06/02/2012 10:54 PM, John wrote:
> Yes service is that slow, and I am surprised that 5 accounts where created.
> Right now we are down a login server (Nightshade) and have seen overload
> symptoms on poor willow (our only other login server). Until nightshade can
> be brought back into commission I think adding more stress to an already
> overloaded server is not advisable.
>
> John
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Stephen James
hazard_sj@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> The account approval requests tracker is getting "messy". *18* created
>> and *5* resolved over the last 30 days. I created a request on May 8, and
>> have emailed ts-admins since (with no reply) over a week now. I've had no
>> comments to my request, and am wondering if the service is usually this
>> slow. I am aware that we are not obliged to get accounts, as it is a free
>> service offered (etc.), but I believe that cleaning up the backlog would be
>> good.
>>
>> Hazard-SJ