Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 21, 2005 @02:28PM from the problem-with-non-absolute-power dept.

Baricom writes "Just a few weeks after a major power outage took out well-known blogging service LiveJournal for several hours, almost all of Wikimedia Foundation's services are offline due to a tripped circuit breaker at a different colo. Among other services, Wikimedia runs the well-known Wikipedia open encyclopedia. Coincidentally, the foundation is in the middle of a fundraising drive to pay for new servers. They have established an off-site backup of the fundraising page here until power returns."

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Re:Distributed Wikipedia? by SinaSa · 2005-02-21 17:29 · Score: 0, Troll

Talk is cheap.

What's inexcusable is YOU calling the work of volunteers to provide the world (literally) with an almost unlimited source of good information for free, inexcusable.

Why don't you get off your ass and help?

What am I doing to help you say? Well...they asked me to be rude to the rude people on slashdot... :D

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