[Wikimedia-l] This afternoon's system outage

[David Gerard]

On 6 August 2012 15:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at 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.


- d.