Wikipedia actually forces me to take an indefinite break until the whole thing is running properly again. A couple of days ago, I wikified a long page and for once forgot to copy it before pressing the "save" button. Needless to say, the whole thing was lost irrevocably before I had realized my mistake. Yesterday I was careless again and added five titles to Kingturtle's reading list -- lost forever. Now I just wanted to update a page -- impossible.
I'm still amazed that this is not being discussed. Instead, I am inundated by e-mails about bots, most of which are just copies of old e-mails with one sentence added at the bottom. I don't understand participants' priorities here.
I have been used to having a look at Wikipedia first thing whenever I sit down at my computer. I guess I'll keep doing so and occasionally try to edit an article, but since all good features (watchlist, search function etc.) are more or less gone and as it now usually takes one minute or so to get from the edit history back to the article I don't think I'll be able to contribute a lot. This is just too frustrating.
Whatever happened to the "new server madness"?
KF