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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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Wikipedia is slow as fuck tonight.
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QUOTE(lolwut @ Thu 2nd July 2009, 5:07pm) *

Wikipedia is slow as fuck tonight.

Servers in the UK are down due to a power outage, so someone said in IRC. I thought all the servers were in the US.
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QUOTE(LaraLove @ Thu 2nd July 2009, 10:28pm) *

QUOTE(lolwut @ Thu 2nd July 2009, 5:07pm) *

Wikipedia is slow as fuck tonight.

Servers in the UK are down due to a power outage, so someone said in IRC. I thought all the servers were in the US.

"European proxy caching cluster", apparently.
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"European proxy caching cluster", apparently.

If those servers are in England can someone sue WMF for their contents under English law?
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QUOTE(sbrown @ Thu 2nd July 2009, 10:08pm) *

QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Thu 2nd July 2009, 10:32pm) *

"European proxy caching cluster", apparently.

If those servers are in England can someone sue WMF for their contents under English law?

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Evoswitch has recently allowed the WMF free access to caching servers at their leading, 100% carbon neutral green data center in the Netherlands.

I don't think the WMF are using the servers in Seoul anymore.
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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...  
GlassBeadGame   There is an oversighted edit though, that read:...  
cyofee   I see glitches and errors every once in a few week...  
LaraLove   When NawlinWiki was doing all his Grawp deletions ...  
Sylar   The English Wikipedia is extremely slow right now....  
lolwut   Pages are not loading for me at the moment.  
GlassBeadGame   Reminds of the Woody Allen joke of the two old lad...  
lolwut   Reminds of the Woody Allen joke of the two old la...  
Eva Destruction   To be boring for a minute – usually when yo...  
MZMcBride   To be boring for a minute – usually when y...  
Apathetic   Wikipedia is slow as fuck tonight. indeed !  
Malleus   /]"European proxy caching cluster", appa...  
A Horse With No Name   [quote name='Eva Destruction' post='181525' date=...  
Eva Destruction   "European proxy caching cluster", appa...  
sbrown   They're not in England (the clue's in the...  
Eva Destruction   They're not in England (the clue's in th...  
CharlotteWebb   They're not in England (the clue's in the...  
Eva Destruction   If any Europeans are really desperate, going via t...  
LaraLove   If any Europeans are really desperate, going via ...  
EricBarbour   You're starting to see the true horror of keep...  
Kelly Martin   You're starting to see the true horror of keep...  
EricBarbour   Amazing how ignorant your guys are about your favo...  
emesee   heckers McHeckers, ya; Epic Lulz. :confused: :co...  
Apathetic   slow as hell right now  
Nerd   slow as hell right now Are you Emesee in disgui...  
Apathetic   [quote name='Apathetic' post='186403' date='Thu 3...  
sbrown   Are you Emesee in disguise? no, why do you say ...  
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Apathetic   nvm  
SDJ   nvm Yes. It's very strange, and something th...  
Apathetic   nvm Yes. It's very strange, and something t...  

 

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