Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24155515-20140301030658/@comment-24155515-20140301060831

It's a bit more in depth than that, in that (from what I know about Wikipedia, mind) database issues affect admin actions, bot programs, edit lists, cached versions of pages, search, really a flurry of things, and so, if a database is purposely taken down, it should be done at the time of day/week that is traditionally lowest in traffic.