[Wikimedia-l] Fire Drill Re: Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

[Anthony]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:30 AM, John <phoenixoverride at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ill run a quick benchmark and import the full history of simple.wikipedia to
> my laptop wiki on a stick, and give an exact duration

Simple.wikipedia is nothing like en.wikipedia.  For one thing, there's
no need to turn on $wgCompressRevisions with simple.wikipedia.

Is $wgCompressRevisions still used?  I haven't followed this in quite a while.