Wikipedia is down

status.wikimedia.org

19 points·wcarss··8 comments

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. :)

It's called www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

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....

From #wikipedia-overflow on irc.freenode.net:

09:29EST <@RD> Wikipedia is currently down - network issues (that is all that we know at the moment) - http://status.wikimedia.org

From IRC: "Status: Down - routing issues to Tampa" (edit: removed conjecture)

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.

Oh no, I forgot to donate! Sorry, Jimmy!

And it's back up now. :)

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