Rick wrote on wikien-l:

What the heck is going on with Wikipedia?

The site is using a three-day old read-only back up at the moment. This is expected to last until at least 2am (UTC).

Please see OpenFacts for the latest updates on this. http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Wikipedia_Status

According to Tim Starling, when the data transfer finishes, the developers will make sure suda is properly set up to be a master. Then the wiki will be restarted using that. A second copy of the entire data directory will be made on ariel. Then they will try to start ariel as a slave. After that, a third DB machine may be set up.

Angela