from the chatroom on irc where I always hangout, i believe I've picked up that the database is being queried for serving current-articles. If so, wikipedia need sto cache (dump) out the current versions of pages into file format so as to create the most minimal load possible. Its probably a good idea too to dump out the edit page as well.
im [[user_talk:hfastedge]].
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