When Wikipedia goes down Options Rating

[thekohser]

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?

[michael]

They're doing a poor job of planning it if they are...in my three years, I can only count about ten times it has gone down.

[gomi]

They're doing a poor job of planning it if they are...in my three years, I can only count about ten times it has gone down.

You must not be on very much. I see a transitory outage every week or two, with some more significant outage every few months.

[michael]

You must not be on very much. I see a transitory outage every week or two, with some more significant outage every few months.

Really? It's hard for me to recall the last time i ever saw the "servers are down" message for an extended period of time, that's why I said that it must have only been about ten times. I have about 17,000 edits over two Wikipedias, so...