On First Quarterly Review makes for interesting reading, just wanted to chime in with two points...
Anyway, thanks for the coverage Jarry! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 22:30, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
The data centre migration seems to coincide with a delay I've been seeing in article cache invalidation. Prior to 22 January, edits I submitted were immediately reflected as the latest version of the article, assuming the page wasn't subject to pending change review (ah, the ever-increasing indignities of editing without logging in). In other words, after supplying an edit summary and submitting a change, the article page would automatically refresh, perhaps with a brief delay, with the changes visible. This isn't necessarily true anymore. In the past, even when the site was under a heavy load for one reason or another, a subsequent null edit would let me see the version of the article that reflected my changes; that isn't necessarily true anymore. Another change I never saw until now: it is possible for a null edit/purge to fail even when article history shows my changes. In other words, it now appears possible for the most recent WP:permalink for an article to differ from the default version of an article. Assuming I had just edited Metacarcinus these can now differ, something I haven't seen before, after years of editing:
68.165.77.6 ( talk) 04:23, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
On First Quarterly Review makes for interesting reading, just wanted to chime in with two points...
Anyway, thanks for the coverage Jarry! Steven Walling (WMF) • talk 22:30, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
The data centre migration seems to coincide with a delay I've been seeing in article cache invalidation. Prior to 22 January, edits I submitted were immediately reflected as the latest version of the article, assuming the page wasn't subject to pending change review (ah, the ever-increasing indignities of editing without logging in). In other words, after supplying an edit summary and submitting a change, the article page would automatically refresh, perhaps with a brief delay, with the changes visible. This isn't necessarily true anymore. In the past, even when the site was under a heavy load for one reason or another, a subsequent null edit would let me see the version of the article that reflected my changes; that isn't necessarily true anymore. Another change I never saw until now: it is possible for a null edit/purge to fail even when article history shows my changes. In other words, it now appears possible for the most recent WP:permalink for an article to differ from the default version of an article. Assuming I had just edited Metacarcinus these can now differ, something I haven't seen before, after years of editing:
68.165.77.6 ( talk) 04:23, 25 January 2013 (UTC)