The current enwiki database dump (http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20081008/) has been crawling along since 10/15/2008.
I realize that dumps can appear stalled in their normal processing (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps#Schedule), but in the recent past (as far as I know) they have not been stalled this long without there being something actually wrong. The completion date for "All pages with complete page edit history" (where it is currently) fluctuates within the latter half of 2009.
Is this purposeful? And is there anything I (or other community members) can do about it? I personally just need the pages-articles part. Would it be possible to dump up to that part on a different thread?
Thank you for your time.
Gabriel Weinberg