The database has been reorganized, which required a few hours of downtime. Thanks to the reorganization, page histories, contribution lists and the random page feature should now be a lot faster. See the wikitech-l mailing list for details, and subscribe if you want to help with further MySQL optimizations to speed up Wikipedia!
SearchDay[?] - a search engine news mailing list - has a feature article about us here (http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/03/sd0210-wikipedia).
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