Erik Moeller wrote in part:
currently Special:Undelete is almost unusable because of the page size; flushing the archive might be a tempfix
I'd like to remind administrators of my work-around for this. To view the deleted page [[xxx]], just go this URL: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special%3AUndelete&target=xxx (or the equivalent on whatever language's wiki is involved). Note that going here does *not* undelete the page; it only views it! You'll need to push an extra button to actually undelete anything. But it does skip the long list at [[Special:Undelete]] itself, and I use it often (mostly when combining histories) with no problems.
This is, of course, a temporary work-around. A more user-friendly software solution would still be good.
-- Toby