Tim Starling wrote:
Sorry I misunderstood what you meant. Article text is
stored in the
database, not in files. We can't compress articles with "bzip2
/database/revisions/*.txt". Any compression of multiple revisions in
the same instance of bzip2 has to managed by MediaWiki.
And I had misunderstood what you meant. =]
Perhaps misremembering an old thread on the subject, I thought you were
discussing how to cut down on the size of offline database dumps, rather
than the database used in the running wiki.
-Mark