[Foundation-l] Slowness, error messages, and being logged out, since around January 15

[Marc Riddell]

on 1/26/11 7:09 PM, SlimVirgin at slimvirgin at gmail.com wrote:

> A few editors on the English Wikipedia have been noticing a problem since
> around January 15 of "connection timed out" messages, very slow performance,
> and being logged out.
> 
> Preview is getting hard to use because so slow, or failing entirely, and
> some edits are not being saved.
> Some discussion here --
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Slowness_a
> nd_timing_out_error_message
> 
> Does anyone know whether there's work going on that might be causing it?
> 
> Sarah

I'll second everything problem you described, Sarah. The site has been
extremely slow and unpredictable for days now.

Marc