This is a fairly urgent thing we should try to fix. Obviously it doesn’t look too good cosmetically speaking, at the moment, and also it’s difficult to search. It has also meant that a lot of translated information is lost, temporarily until we solve this.
There are two angles on the problem. I suspect that the server genuinely is low on memory, because back on Saturday it seemed to slow down and die all together, which surely means it’s not too healthy, so I’m hoping that one of the System Administrators is actually investigating, but I guess I should contact them directly to check if they’re doing anything.
But the other thing is perhaps we can scale back on the tree of template inclusions we have set up there. I’m not exactly sure what type of thing is using a lot of memory particularly, but I imagine it must be the sheer number of included templates. I’m thinking one idea might be to avoid using {{IconNode}}, {{IconWay}}, and {{IconArea}} everywhere, just reference the images more directly.
However there’s a concern I have, that by reducing template inclusions (going for less clever/elegant arrangements of wiki information) all we do is delay some enevitable out-of-memory error cropping up elsewhere in the wiki as the server gets worse.
