Lydia Pintscher, 08/04/2013 00:14:
The bot was blocked and backlog grows by 400.000 items every 24h, so I doubt that's the point.
It is no longer blocked afaik. And there are more bots :)
But they're not editing faster that in the last few months, so something is broken. There was that change to preserve en.wiki's DB after all, it's not unrealistic that things slowed down.
Nemo