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English Wikipedia (and Meta, and French Wikipedia, and Wikiversity, but strangely not Wikiquote) seems to have a server down right now. Anybody else notice this? Additionally, I notice that on the "error" page the Foundation has also craftily mentioned:

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 donate.

I wonder if they might be actually planning downtime deliberately, in order to drive up contributions?
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slow as hell right now
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QUOTE(Apathetic @ Thu 30th July 2009, 1:10am) *

slow as hell right now


Are you Emesee in disguise?
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QUOTE(Nerd @ Wed 29th July 2009, 8:13pm) *

QUOTE(Apathetic @ Thu 30th July 2009, 1:10am) *

slow as hell right now


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no, why do you say that?

down again! =\

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikit...uly/044406.html
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Hello,

Due to a problem in one of our core routers in our Tampa cluster we need
to perform some network maintenance tomorrow, Friday July 31st around
12:00 UTC. We will be performing a software upgrade and reboot of the
router. This should not take more than a few minutes if everything goes
well. Unfortunately this means that practically all sites and services
will be down during that time.

For those interested: one of the line cards in the router failed earlier
this week. A replacement has arrived, but does not boot up correctly
after hot plugging. Because we want to upgrade the firmware anyway, we
will reboot the entire box.

Cheers,

--
Mark Bergsma
System & Network Administrator, Wikimedia Foundation


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QUOTE(Apathetic @ Fri 31st July 2009, 2:01pm) *

QUOTE(Nerd @ Wed 29th July 2009, 8:13pm) *

Are you Emesee in disguise?

no, why do you say that?

Im sure its nothing personal. Accusing people of being each other is a popular sport here. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/biggrin.gif)
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thekohser   When Wikipedia goes down  
michael   They're doing a poor job of planning it if the...  
gomi   They're doing a poor job of planning it if th...  
michael   You must not be on very much. I see a transitory...  
wikiwhistle   They're doing a poor job of planning it if th...  
luke   seems to be working again for the moment  
anthony   Take a look at the server admin log (personally I...  
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