Dear all,
The Wikimedia Foundation will be performing network maintenance on Tuesday, May 24 between 13:00 and 14:00 (UTC) (see other timezones on timeanddate.com: http://ur1.ca/49cl2 ).
During the maintenance period, you may experience intermittent connection issues to Wikimedia Foundation websites, including wikipedia.org.
We have been experiencing router networking issues (and as a direct result, latency issues) since last week. After much investigation, and temporary fixes, the Operations team decided to update the router software and tune the configuration.
We apologize for the inconvenience.