Maintaining wiki

doortrapper · 2009-11-25T08:20:53.000Z

Trying to edit the wiki for some days now. Most of the time submitting results in time-out errrors. I’m the only one experiencing these errors?

Alex_McKee · 2009-11-25T13:10:54.000Z

I was able to edit a page OK.

Tordanik · 2009-11-25T16:37:11.000Z

doortrapper:

Most of the time submitting results in time-out errrors. I’m the only one experiencing these errors?

I’ve seen these when editing very large pages, I don’t know if the situation has improved since then. Smaller pages should be ok, though, except when the server is already busy. Unfortunately, it isn’t that powerful.

Quoting Platform Status:

Platform Status:

wiki – Problems handling editing/complex templates/load during peak periods. Introduced more caching on the Map Features page and Recent Changes, This will cause you to appear logged out. Cascading template updates switched off (use action=purge to override). Despite these measures the wiki slows down a fair bit during busy periods, and may occasionally die completely. We have also rescued the situation occasionally by putting it temporarily into read-only mode.

doortrapper · 2009-11-29T08:20:28.000Z

Trying to edit a map fetures page, think that’s a complex one?!. Peak periods, there seems to be al lot of peak periods ;).

Looking some closer to the behaviour, a text change does take place despite the error. Trying to insert an external link, that’s troublesome (the spam protection?).

Richard · 2009-12-01T19:27:44.000Z

Map Features is the most complex page on the wiki by a long chalk, because of over-use of templates. Editing Map Features can have a performance impact on other OSM services. It’s that bad.