Wikipedia is currently down due to networking issues in the Tampa Datacenter. No ETA is known at the moment. To see current Wikipedia status go to http://status.wikimedia.org. If you want to browse the wiki, please try other tools such as Archive.org and Google Cache.
Why does anyone care? These posts are getting increasingly popular. It seems like reputation-bait to me and really detracts from coming here to do what we do - read articles.
I made the post informationally -- it seemed worth it for anyone who runs into a problem and is looking for validation from the community that "it isn't just them".
I was using wikipedia at the time and went to IRC to find out what's up, but not everyone will go that far or think to look at the status page. I don't know what downforeveryoneorjustme would return in this case -- I did not think to check the headers being returned.
If there were a karma-donation mechanism, I'd give you the 20 points or so I've gotten out of this for making a good point. :)
Why would anyone go on hackernews to check if a website is down? That doesn't make much sense, there are so many mechanisms out there to deal with this kind of thing....
I think the panic occurring already over Wikipedia being down for less than an hour reflects on just how reliable the site usually is - especially for one relying exclusively on donations.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 43.3 ms ] thread09:29EST <@RD> Wikipedia is currently down - network issues (that is all that we know at the moment) - http://status.wikimedia.org
Wikipedia is currently down due to networking issues in the Tampa Datacenter. No ETA is known at the moment. To see current Wikipedia status go to http://status.wikimedia.org. If you want to browse the wiki, please try other tools such as Archive.org and Google Cache.
I was using wikipedia at the time and went to IRC to find out what's up, but not everyone will go that far or think to look at the status page. I don't know what downforeveryoneorjustme would return in this case -- I did not think to check the headers being returned.
If there were a karma-donation mechanism, I'd give you the 20 points or so I've gotten out of this for making a good point. :)
Why would anyone go on hackernews to check if a website is down? That doesn't make much sense, there are so many mechanisms out there to deal with this kind of thing....