Wikipedia offline

JAS84 · Mon 06 Aug, 2012 15.21

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/6/322310 ... -goes-down
Wikipedia is out of action.

http://status.wikimedia.org/
Lots of red and amber on that status page right now.

Pete · Mon 06 Aug, 2012 15.29

Perhaps barcode has tried to edit too many articles at once in his crusade against laziness?

JAS84 · Mon 06 Aug, 2012 15.53

Ah, the article I linked to was updated.

Meanwhile, a message from the @wikimediadc Twitter account suggests that the outage is being caused by problems in the site's Tampa data center:

Nick Harvey · Mon 06 Aug, 2012 17.44

Too many people looking up the meaning of "extradition" at the same time?

Philip · Mon 06 Aug, 2012 19.46

I was in the Wiki IRC at the time and apparently the outage was due to someone cutting through the cords. The Guardian have an article on it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... sfeed=true

Pete · Mon 06 Aug, 2012 19.56

Philip wrote:I was in the Wiki IRC at the time

Well jel

Philip · Mon 06 Aug, 2012 20.11

Pete wrote:
Philip wrote:I was in the Wiki IRC at the time
Well jel

Well, only because it was on the error page and directed you to go there for more information.