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thekohser
post Mon 22nd September 2008, 5:35pm
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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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thekohser   When Wikipedia goes down   Mon 22nd September 2008, 5:35pm
michael   They're doing a poor job of planning it if the...   Mon 22nd September 2008, 5:38pm
gomi   They're doing a poor job of planning it if th...   Mon 22nd September 2008, 6:57pm
michael   You must not be on very much. I see a transitory...   Tue 23rd September 2008, 5:19am
wikiwhistle   They're doing a poor job of planning it if th...   Tue 23rd September 2008, 1:01pm
luke   seems to be working again for the moment   Mon 22nd September 2008, 6:08pm
anthony   Take a look at the server admin log (personally I...   Mon 22nd September 2008, 7:01pm
GlassBeadGame   There is an oversighted edit though, that read:...   Tue 23rd September 2008, 2:50pm
cyofee   I see glitches and errors every once in a few week...   Tue 23rd September 2008, 10:01am
LaraLove   When NawlinWiki was doing all his Grawp deletions ...   Tue 23rd September 2008, 2:18pm
Sylar   The English Wikipedia is extremely slow right now....   Wed 5th November 2008, 2:09am
lolwut   Pages are not loading for me at the moment.   Fri 20th February 2009, 4:33pm
GlassBeadGame   Reminds of the Woody Allen joke of the two old lad...   Fri 20th February 2009, 5:21pm
lolwut   Reminds of the Woody Allen joke of the two old la...   Fri 20th February 2009, 6:23pm
Eva Destruction   To be boring for a minute – usually when you get...   Fri 20th February 2009, 6:06pm
MZMcBride   To be boring for a minute – usually when you ge...   Fri 3rd April 2009, 5:39pm
lolwut   Wikipedia is slow as fuck tonight.   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:07pm
Apathetic   Wikipedia is slow as fuck tonight. indeed !   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:13pm
LaraLove   Wikipedia is slow as fuck tonight. Servers in th...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:28pm
Eva Destruction   [quote name='lolwut' post='181520' date='Thu 2nd ...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:32pm
Malleus   /]"European proxy caching cluster", appa...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:38pm
A Horse With No Name   [quote name='Eva Destruction' post='181525' date=...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:44pm
sbrown   "European proxy caching cluster", appar...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 10:08pm
Eva Destruction   "European proxy caching cluster", appa...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 10:24pm
sbrown   They're not in England (the clue's in the...   Fri 3rd July 2009, 11:20am
Eva Destruction   They're not in England (the clue's in th...   Fri 3rd July 2009, 11:31am
CharlotteWebb   They're not in England (the clue's in the...   Fri 3rd July 2009, 1:36pm
tarantino   "European proxy caching cluster", appa...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 10:42pm
Eva Destruction   If any Europeans are really desperate, going via t...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:48pm
LaraLove   If any Europeans are really desperate, going via ...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:51pm
EricBarbour   You're starting to see the true horror of keep...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 9:55pm
Kelly Martin   You're starting to see the true horror of keep...   Fri 31st July 2009, 3:11pm
EricBarbour   Amazing how ignorant your guys are about your favo...   Thu 2nd July 2009, 10:34pm
emesee   heckers McHeckers, ya; Epic Lulz. :confused: :co...   Thu 9th July 2009, 5:22am
Apathetic   slow as hell right now   Thu 30th July 2009, 12:10am
Nerd   slow as hell right now Are you Emesee in disgui...   Thu 30th July 2009, 12:13am
Apathetic   [quote name='Apathetic' post='186403' date='Thu 3...   Fri 31st July 2009, 1:01pm
sbrown   Are you Emesee in disguise? no, why do you say ...   Sat 1st August 2009, 6:29am
Apathetic   [quote name='Apathetic' post='186684' date='Fri 3...   Sat 1st August 2009, 2:11pm
Apathetic   nvm   Tue 22nd September 2009, 9:38pm
SDJ   nvm Yes. It's very strange, and something th...   Tue 22nd September 2009, 9:39pm
Apathetic   nvm Yes. It's very strange, and something t...   Tue 22nd September 2009, 9:58pm


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