moving announcements

November 26, 2002

Performance tweaks: Until table locking problems are sorted out, the following slow special pages have been disabled during high-access times on the English-language Wikipedia to keep the rest of the site moving: Orphaned articles, Long articles and Short articles, Popular articles, Most wanted articles, and the Maintenance page. They will still be accessible between 02:00 and 14:00 UTC (9 pm to 9 am EST); sorry for the inconvenience.

Also, the watchlist is undergoing some reconstruction; it is now limited similarly to the recent changes list so users with long watchlists don't have to wait and wait and wait quite so long.

November 25, 2002

New discussion pages have been created to explore the possibility of adding a dictionary project and gazetteer project alongside the Wikipedia project. Please let me know if you think this is a good idea.

November 23, 2002

Polish Wikipedia is now upgraded to the new software, and searching works properly on the various non-Latin1-encoded languages such as Esperanto, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese.

November 22, 2002

User contributions lists should no longer be atrociously slow.

November 21, 2002

We've recently made some tweaks to the database configuration which should be making site response a bit snappier during peak hours. (yay!)

Also, the long-missed "Show new changes from (time)" link in Recentchanges has been reimplemented. Ink is your premier source for custom and unique moving announcements.