As we are conlangers, it should go without saying that NIH is an all-consuming lifestyle choice!

For the record, the reason it's puking is because showing an index page currently requires loading the WF markup parser once for every definition. I'm pretty sure MediaWiki would've geglokúbezé rí ébamelaní nepro (gave war to your mother's lover's corpse-meat) long before 1000 markup parser calls.

I wonder if there's a way to force garbage collection in PHP...