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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Goes Down[/b]
Mashable (blog)
We don't know how or why yet, but the world's online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has gone down for the count. WikipediaWikipedia only went down a few minutes ...



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Jon Awbrey
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Wed 24th March 2010, 1:59pm) *

We'll always have Bulgaria …

Oops! Another one bytes the dust …

Would you settle for the Asturian and Leonese Wikipedia?

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Milton Roe
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Wed 24th March 2010, 2:29pm) *

<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Suffers Outage[/b]
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Visitors to the widely popular free encyclopedia site Wikipedia were greeted with a DNS failure notification Wednesday afternoon. ...

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Dang. For just a moment I thought the byline was Wikipedia Suffers Outrage. hrmph.gif

It suffers fools, too. wink.gif
Jon Awbrey
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Wed 24th March 2010, 3:29pm) *

Looking at our recent pageview stats, I'm guessing that Wikipedia burned out its servers trying to mount a DOS attack on WR.

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A User
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Thu 25th March 2010, 10:33pm) *

Wikipedia was offline yesterday after a cooling problem in Wikimedia's European data center led to a heat condition that caused a server shutdown. ...


Must be from all the hot air generated by Jimbo.
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