On 6 August 2012 15:53, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6 August 2012 15:52, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia
has started to come back
> but with a really strange appearance - less usable than Vector. Rumour has
> it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far none of
> the parties to various incidents on the Dwamah boards have fessed up as
> responsible. If anyone in the know could give more details it would be nice.
Please do, it's making the news already (Mashable,
CNet) and the BBC
just called to ask about it :-)
Front page is back for me, fwiw.
According to #wikimedia-tech a few hours ago, a cut fibre cable:
"Wikipedia is currently down due to networking issues (read: fiber
being accidentally cut) in the Tampa Datacenter."
- d.