On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Tim Chambers wrote:
I'm deeply saddened that Wikipedia is a victim of its own success,
No, it is victim to poor architecture. It's a software problem in the Wikipedia PHP source code.
The developers seem totally clueless about performance issues. There is a constant focus on new functions, and none on performance and response times. They cannot even say what the average response time has been in the last week or 24 hours. (Hey, prove me wrong: Tell me the average.)