I'm getting incredibly slow responses from the main Wikipedia now and in the last few days. Why is this? Who is working to fix it? How can I help?
I don't think anybody is actively working on it right now. Jimbo has said that he will soon move some other web sites off the wikipedia server and will then give some of us user accounts on that machine, so that we can better diagnose the problems. Right now, it is not clear what we can do. For you, maybe the best would be to download the current code from cvs, get it to work and familiarize yourself with it; once we have access to the server we should be able to figure out what's going on pretty quickly.
Axel
What about making some of our update queries 'delayed'?
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