Last night, Wikipedia was so slow (at least 5 minutes from the time I hit SAVE until the article was actually saved, lucky if I didn't get an ERROR message) that I eventually gave up. And now today it seems to be in the same unuseable mode.
What's going on, and will it be fixed soon?
RickK
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I thought it was also slow sometimes, when accessing articles it took an age (and I looked like a total prick cos I was showing it to mates)
Is there just lots of traffic recently?
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:53:04 -0700 (PDT), Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com wrote:
Last night, Wikipedia was so slow (at least 5 minutes from the time I hit SAVE until the article was actually saved, lucky if I didn't get an ERROR message) that I eventually gave up. And now today it seems to be in the same unuseable mode.
What's going on, and will it be fixed soon?
RickK
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Deletion seems to have stepped up a gear recently, with over 70 new listings just today. Is it just me, or is this spiralling out of control? Most of these are verifiable things that folks don't think are 'notable'.
It seems to me that if there are even a few people who might find an article on something esoteric useful, then we should keep it, provided that we can write a neutral, factual, verifiable article on it.
Whether it is 'notable' will be entirely a matter of opinion. What is notable to a computer programmer may not be for a botanist, and for a local historian a hill or burial mound could be fascinating.
While I recognise that we don't want articles on someone's coffee cup, and don't want lots of replies saying 'well, I'll write an article on the cheese under my toenails', these are real world things. Please think twice before deleting something just because 'only a few people will ever be interested'.
Mark
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Mark Richards wrote:
Deletion seems to have stepped up a gear recently, with over 70 new listings just today. Is it just me, or is this spiralling out of control? Most of these are verifiable things that folks don't think are 'notable'.
That's a fairly large misstatement of the actual situation, seeing that virtually all of the "over 70 new listings" are a list of over 70 esoteric programming languages listed for VFD by one person.
And given that the vote is overwhelmingly to KEEP them at the moment, I'm not sure what exactly is "spiralling out of control".
My suggestion: calm down, and if a user is repeatedly submitting articles for VFD for which the consensus is to keep, have a quiet word to them about it.
Now, as always, if you ignore huge statistic-skewing events like these esoteric programming languages, most of the stuff which is listed on VFD is deleted, by near-unanimous consent, because it simply does not fit the community standards of what Wikipedia is for.
Cheers! David...
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:31:33 +1000, David Carson david@hemiware.com wrote:
Mark Richards wrote:
That's a fairly large misstatement of the actual situation, seeing that virtually all of the "over 70 new listings" are a list of over 70 esoteric programming languages listed for VFD by one person.
Note that over a dozen entries on VfD were "The Apprentice" contestants, added in one big shot. As Wikipedia's popularity grows, the listing on VfD will too.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
Yes it was planned.
I presume it was announced on en:pump, for JamesDay took the time to warn fr.
Yes several people are currently working on it. Just on irc, I notice Jimbo, Jamesday, jeronimo and others.
Do not worry :-)
Rick a écrit:
Last night, Wikipedia was so slow (at least 5 minutes from the time I hit SAVE until the article was actually saved, lucky if I didn't get an ERROR message) that I eventually gave up. And now today it seems to be in the same unuseable mode.
What's going on, and will it be fixed soon?
RickK
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:) okey dokey
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:04:57 +0200, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Yes it was planned.
I presume it was announced on en:pump, for JamesDay took the time to warn fr.
Yes several people are currently working on it. Just on irc, I notice Jimbo, Jamesday, jeronimo and others.
Do not worry :-)
Rick a écrit:
Last night, Wikipedia was so slow (at least 5 minutes from the time I hit SAVE until the article was actually saved, lucky if I didn't get an ERROR message) that I eventually gave up. And now today it seems to be in the same unuseable mode.
What's going on, and will it be fixed soon?
RickK
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I see nothing on the Village Pump announcing any downtime or slowness.
RickK
Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote: Yes it was planned.
I presume it was announced on en:pump, for JamesDay took the time to warn fr.
Yes several people are currently working on it. Just on irc, I notice Jimbo, Jamesday, jeronimo and others.
Do not worry :-)
Rick a �crit:
Last night, Wikipedia was so slow (at least 5 minutes from the time I hit SAVE until the article was actually saved, lucky if I didn't get an ERROR message) that I eventually gave up. And now today it seems to be in the same unuseable mode.
What's going on, and will it be fixed soon?
RickK
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How infortunate :-(
Well... in this case, I suspect the best direction for you is probably to head for wikitech-l@wikimedia.org and complain that no site notice was warning people of a technical down time.
The question might be... how many messages can we decently put on the site notice message ? :-)
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Rick a écrit:
I see nothing on the Village Pump announcing any downtime or slowness.
RickK
Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote: Yes it was planned.
I presume it was announced on en:pump, for JamesDay took the time to warn fr.
Yes several people are currently working on it. Just on irc, I notice Jimbo, Jamesday, jeronimo and others.
Do not worry :-)
Rick a écrit:
Last night, Wikipedia was so slow (at least 5 minutes from the time I hit SAVE until the article was actually saved, lucky if I didn't get an ERROR message) that I eventually gave up. And now today it seems to be in the same unuseable mode.
What's going on, and will it be fixed soon?
RickK
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