Wikipedia Is Down For Us. What About You?
World's biggest human edited encyclopedia, 'The Wikipedia' seems to be down. The front page of the website now shows following message -
Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please #-Link-Snipped-# in a few minutes.
You may be able to get further information in the #-Link-Snipped-# channel on the #-Link-Snipped-#.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organisation which hosts some of the most popular sites on the Internet, including Wikipedia. It has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please #-Link-Snipped-#.
#-Link-Snipped-#
We've tried accessing other pages but the loading time seems to be at least 3-4x the normal. It looks like the site is facing major technical glitches. We're following the story. If you have any updates, share them below.
Update 7:38 PM IST : The images aren't loading on any of the internal pages of the site.
Update: 7:43 PM IST: Here's what we're noticing on the front page of www.wikipedia.org
#-Link-Snipped-#
Update: 7:56 PM IST: The servers status page shows that the site is down for everyone. Something's terribly wrong at Wikipedia's data centers.
#-Link-Snipped-#
Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please #-Link-Snipped-# in a few minutes.
You may be able to get further information in the #-Link-Snipped-# channel on the #-Link-Snipped-#.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organisation which hosts some of the most popular sites on the Internet, including Wikipedia. It has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please #-Link-Snipped-#.
#-Link-Snipped-#
We've tried accessing other pages but the loading time seems to be at least 3-4x the normal. It looks like the site is facing major technical glitches. We're following the story. If you have any updates, share them below.
Update 7:38 PM IST : The images aren't loading on any of the internal pages of the site.
Update: 7:43 PM IST: Here's what we're noticing on the front page of www.wikipedia.org
#-Link-Snipped-#
Update: 7:56 PM IST: The servers status page shows that the site is down for everyone. Something's terribly wrong at Wikipedia's data centers.
#-Link-Snipped-#
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