The English-language Wikipedia is currently in read-only mode while the
old revisions table is munged into a more friendly, less prone to delays
when loading oft-edited pages, state. It should be through in a couple
of hours (it's a DARN big table!); sorry for the wait.
In the meantime, explore
meta.wikipedia.org,
wiktionary.org, or dabble
in another language...
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)