Rhwawn comments on Preventing discussion from being watered down by an "endless September" user influx. - Less Wrong
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Speculative: the Singularity Summit Australia 2011 was held in late August that year during the National Science Week. Then again, could be a case of post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Could be no cause other than the variance chiming in, which is to be expected from time to time.
What about Methods of Rationality? September 2011 is mid-way through its upswing. I see no easy way to quantify reviews, though, short of manually going through the thousands on FF.net...
Actually, you might find my http://www.gwern.net/hpmor#analysis useful!
Looking at all reviews posted per day, in September 2011, there does in fact seem to be a large spike in number of posted reviews.