On 1/4/09 6:20 AM, yegg@alum.mit.edu wrote:
The current enwiki database dump (http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/) has been crawling along since 10/15/2008.
The current dump system is not sustainable on very large wikis and is being replaced. You'll hear about it when we have the new one in place. :)
-- brion