Lars wrote
Now, to be even more useful, database dumps should be produced on *regular* intervals. That way, we can compare various measures such as article growth, link counts or usage of certain words, without having to introduce the exact dump time in the count.
That would complicate matters further though. Also as each new dump for some wiki takes a little longer this would mean lots of slack in the schedule and force servers to be idle part of the time.
I hate to distract Tomasz from optimizing the dump process, so I'll postpone new feature requests, but an option to order gift wrappings for the dumps would be neat :-)
Erik Zachte