Wikipedia talk:Wikimedia Foundation error

Requested move

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, but this can be revisited as necessary. Dekimasu よ! 23:05, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation error → Help:Wikimedia Foundation error – This is a technical help page for readers, not a WP:ESSAY. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  19:17, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Questions: First, why was this created an essay in the first place? since you started this page, could you provide us with more information? And second, this page primarily explains an issue with templates that occurred between 2009 and 2012, and was apparently fixed/resolved via 19262. IIRC, issues with slow loading templates was also aided by the implementation of Lua and Module pages last year. If this issue no longer exists, then this page should either be deleted or marked as historical, not moved into the help namespace. Zzyzx11 (talk) 01:19, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The page began as an essay to explore the implications of Wikimedia Foundation errors (WFE), but the most common cause seems to have been large templates hitting the 60-second timeout error. Lua modules have been limited to 10-second timeout, but recent template usage should be checked to see what error messages are displayed. Because WFE errors have occurred and been discussed for years, then the essay should be kept to support the explanatory background. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:22, 13 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I'd be happy to close this discussion, but I'm not sure whether a conclusion has been reached. Deleting the page isn't one of the things under consideration. Should it be classified as an essay or as a help page? Dekimasu よ! 16:27, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Timeouts
Timeouts cause other problems as well. As an admin they have caused me a couple of serious problems that I did not understand at the time. Perhaps the ramifications for admins are documented somewhere, but if so I missed it, and they should be more prominent at least.

Thanks for this documentation, it's a good start and it will probably save me a lot of work in the future. Andrewa (talk) 19:43, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

"Wikipedia has a problem" error
Shouldn't we have a page on the "WP has a problem" error as well? 24.68.146.148 (talk) 01:43, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

The problem still exists in 2020
When I asked for help on the regular help page, they sent me to WP:VPT. There I haven't gotten a usable answer. If people were being hit at a location where a green light turned red too soon, building a hospital is not the answer.

Why not just open the limit to 90 seconds, or how about even 99, and then check the system logs? Pi314m (talk) 12:44, 3 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Still exists in 2021 as well. I have had this issue several times over the past few weeks, including today.  Giggity Giggity  Goo!  18:18, 15 January 2021 (UTC)