[WikiEN-l] The sky is falling

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/8  <wjhonson at aol.com>:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Thu, 7 May 2009 5:09 pm
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The sky is falling
>
> 2009/5/8  <wjhonson at aol.com>:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo_(programming_language)
>>
>> Result:
>>
>> This wiki has a problem
>>
>> Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
>> Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.
>>
>> (Cannot contact the database server: Unknown error (10.0.6.22))
>>
>> - - -
>>
>> Say What?  What the heck does this mean :)
>
> It means the site is experiencing technical difficulties and you
> should try waiting a few minutes and reloading.>>
>
> ----------------------------
>
> Yuck yuck yuck.  Very funny.
> Anyone else?

What more do you want? The servers hiccuped, it lasted a matter of
seconds from what I can tell (maybe a minute if I spent a while
reading a page, but I was loading pages fairly frequently shortly
before you sent that email). It's not uncommon for the servers to fail
to fulfil a request every now and then.