[Wikipedia-l] Site down for repair

[Jimmy Wales]

I'm running the command to repair the broken table.  The documents
seem very reassuring that everything will be o.k. in a situation like
this.

But the command is taking a long time to run.  As a precautionary
measure, I've turned off the website completely during the rebuild, so
that we don't spook the database while I'm repairing the table.

It's a big table.  I guess it makes sense for the command to take a long time.

--Jimbo