I recently received several "Wikimedia Foundation" errors after carrying out translation admin actions. The action completed successfully in each case, but the page that is supposed to be loaded afterwards threw a read timeout. Listing the log entry and the corresponding error message for three cases:
20:52, 30 August 2013 Tbayer (WMF) (talk | contribs | block) marked Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Education Program Arab World third term wrap-up for translation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PageTranslation :
Request: POST http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PageTranslation, from 10.64.0.127 via cp1016.eqiad.wmnet (squid/2.7.STABLE9) to 10.2.2.1 (10.2.2.1)
Error: ERR_READ_TIMEOUT, errno [No Error] at Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:53:33 GMT
21:00, 30 August 2013 Tbayer (WMF) (talk | contribs | block) marked Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Full Speed Ahead in the Arab World for translation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PageTranslation :
Request: POST http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PageTranslation, from 10.64.0.131 via cp1016.eqiad.wmnet (squid/2.7.STABLE9) to 10.2.2.1 (10.2.2.1)
Error: ERR_READ_TIMEOUT, errno [No Error] at Fri, 30 Aug 2013 21:01:29 GMT
00:29, 31 August 2013 Tbayer (WMF) (talk | contribs | block) sent a notification about translating page Wikimedia Highlights, July 2013; languages: all languages; deadline: none; priority: medium; sent to 1597 recipients, failed for 0 recipients, skipped for 19 recipients
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NotifyTranslators :
Request: POST http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NotifyTranslators, from 208.80.154.77 via cp1013.eqiad.wmnet (squid/2.7.STABLE9) to 10.64.0.142 (10.64.0.142)
Error: ERR_READ_TIMEOUT, errno [No Error] at Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:29:38 GMT
It's similar to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41131 ("Timeout when sending translation notification")
However, that bug was closed as fixed half a year ago, and indeed didn't occur for me since at least the beginning of this year, and also it did not happen when marking pages for translation. So it seems reasonable to assume that the reason is different now; hence filing it separately.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53932
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55397
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41131