The latest enwiki pages dump of enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 in http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/ is only 5.8 GB. Previous versions, e.g. http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110526/ and http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20110405/ have been consistently around 6.7-6.8GB.
I saw this after noticing that many pages are missing from the newest dump, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_Liar and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_que_re%C3%ADa.
Is this a known problem? Can anything be done to prevent this in the future?
Thanks, Eric