[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] git.wikimedia.org dead due to wikimania ; )

[Chris McKenna]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2013, Oliver Keyes wrote:
>
> I'd like to think Engineering do a pretty good job at uptime for core
> services - when was the last time you saw Wikipedia down for any extended
> period of time? - regardless of what day of the week it is.

Wikipedia uptime is certianly much better these days than it was around 
2005/6 when there were at least two websites dedicated to reporting its 
status. Back then it wasn't uncommon to experience major slowdowns, 
periods of non-responsiveness, extended read only periods and edits 
failing (sometimes silently) due to (iirc) overloaded servers. I can't 
remember the last time I saw anything like that, but it certainly wasn't 
2013.

The folks responsible for this certainly deserve kudos for their efforts.

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