[Wikimedia-l] This afternoon's system outage

[Delirium]

On 8/6/12 4:52 PM, WereSpielChequers 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.

It's back to normal for me now. Afaict, the servers hosting the static 
CSS/JS came back up later than the servers hosting the wiki content, so 
for a period you would be seeing the raw HTML without any CSS styling.

Vaguely impressed that it was readable at all, actually. Good HTML/CSS 
practice is supposed to result in the HTML being readable even without 
CSS applied, but it's common at major sites for that to not really be 
the case.

-Mark