A n00b at Portuguese Wikisource had decided to insert a brazilian salutation slang in the second most used template on that wiki for unknown reasons. A admin with poor English (me) reverted it. [1]. All have happened 9 days ago but since it the job queue is floating between ~1,080 / ~2,400. What is happening?
What was the queue like before? Those don't seem like particularly large values (not that I know how big pt.wikisource is, so it's a little hard to judge). If it's been going both up and down, then I doubt it's a result of an event 9 days ago. There have probably been other edits to templates.