On sab, 2003-02-01 at 14:33, Zoe wrote:

For several days now, when I've clicked on "User Contributions" on my user page, Wikipedia has churned for several minutes, and then displayed the browser's "The page cannot be displayed". I can sometimes Refresh and eventually it comes up, but today, that's been completely unsuccessful.

That's cause you edit too much, Zoe. ;)

Seriously, though, yes. Certain operations that involve checking large numbers of old page revisions are sometimes excruciatingly slow of late. This is hitting:

* User contributions * History of oft-edited pages with hundreds of revisions (Village pump, mav's talk page, current events, talk:main page, vandalism alerts) * Diff to last edit on the same. (This involves sorting to find the most recent edit, and that seems to be holding us up.)

Until this is resolved, I'd like to ask that you _don't_ hit refresh when one of these is churning away like mad, but rather just let it go. The first query keeps running for a while, and it's just not going to go anywhere until it's done (or I or Magnus or someone logs in and kills the query), and a second request might just make it worse. :(

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)