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As of 12:33 PM CST, Wikipedia is down (self.wikipedia)

submitted ago* by whenboredomstrikes

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Edit: As mentioned by danchan22, the reason behind the outage

Edit 2: Holy crap, I did not know that CST changes to CDT because of daylight savings time. Thanks Wikipe--err I mean Google cache!

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[–]wintremute 112 points113 points ago

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The CIA airstrike meant for Wikileaks missed and hit Wikipedia instead.

[–][deleted] ago

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[–]alphabeat -2 points-1 points ago

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Should be using GPS coordinates not a typo using DNS.

[–]ImLosingTheGame 0 points1 point ago

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Wintremute mysteriously disappeared a few days later, never to be heard from again

[–]outsdanding 56 points57 points ago

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Earlier reddit was down and then I saw wikipedia was down... I was afraid some kind of crazy cyber attack was going on

[–]steelersfan7roe 38 points39 points ago

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OMG what if I lost reddit and wikipedia? I would be lost.

[–]thepotoo 34 points35 points ago

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googles user name

Well you'd still have last.fm, so I somehow think you'd survive.

[–]whenboredomstrikes[S] 22 points23 points ago

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I decided to google your name as well. First link was to a Wikipedia article on a family of birds. Then I remembered wiki was still down.

sigh. It's like the internet is telling me to finish my homework.

[–]Queebo 10 points11 points ago

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Piqued my curiosity, so I googled mine. Top result was from urban dictionary.

Queebo: To suck the farts out of a dead rabbit's ass.

Nice. Real fuckin' nice.

[–]SarahC 0 points1 point ago

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Oh wow, I did actually laugh. I'm guessing you were not aware of this meaning when you chose the name? How did you pick it then?

[–]Queebo 1 point2 points ago

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No, I definitely was not aware. It just popped into my head as I was trying to think of a handle. Never used it for anything else. My English teacher used the term in class one day while referring to a homosexual person. I liked the word.

Now, not so much.

[–]Doomed 12 points13 points ago

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Google my username, bitches. Which one is me? Which one is an article about global economic systems or a political gaffe?

Bwahahahahaha!

[–]Bit_4 7 points8 points ago

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This is actually one of the best ways to deter cyber stalking, by picking a relatively common word.

[–]bootstampface 3 points4 points ago

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Most of them are already taken by spammers and early adopters, though :(

[–]Bit_4 5 points6 points ago

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Second best IMO is to use a song name from a band that's obscure enough to be relatively unique as a user name yet popular enough to have a ton of google results. All those lyric sites should hide you pretty well.

[–]anarchman 2 points3 points ago

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Finish your homework.

[–]counterfeit_coin 1 point2 points ago

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I had too much going on to google your user name, sorry.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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You might have to...

...do work.

shudder

[–]whenboredomstrikes[S] 5 points6 points ago

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YEEEAAAAAH--wait a minute, that doesn't sound right...

NOOOOO

[–]wolfeater 1 point2 points ago

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Didn't reddit go down today too?

[–]takatori 0 points1 point ago

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Losing reddit and wikipedia would be a disaster!

I might have to go back into that big room with the blue ceiling that I used to play in as a child.

[–]akinder 3 points4 points ago

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Could be, China is a bit pissed at Google right now.

[–]plancton 3 points4 points ago

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Do you still have you Y2k kit around?

[–]monkey_fish 0 points1 point ago

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gmail is down now too.

[–]antidense 0 points1 point ago

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Yeah, and imgur was also down for a few mins an hour ago.

[–]InMyTummyPartyParty 21 points22 points ago*

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Only DNS is down. Add this to your hosts file and it'll work:

208.80.152.2 en.wikipedia.org

(edit: It will not work if you try to visit that IP directly. Once you're able to reach wikipedia again, try reading this for an explanation.)

[–]muldoon_vs_raptor 11 points12 points ago

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nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

but... but... i still don't know what phytochrome and cryptochrome are.... and what does eschatology mean? and what are the jews' take on it? WHO IS ALEXANDER I????

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points ago

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Wikipedia down.

Reddit Down.

Wikileaks harassed by the U.S. government.

All on the same day. I'm just sayin...

[–]square_cubed 24 points25 points ago

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Only when it is down do you realise how much you take it for granted.

[–]theninjagreg 7 points8 points ago

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I wanted to learn which muscles in my back are sore, and now how can I?

[–]jctram 2 points3 points ago

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http://exrx.net/Lists/MMale.html

[–]theninjagreg 1 point2 points ago

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Well, I guess it could be worse. It was only a rendering of a naked man.

[–]weekendwarrior 1 point2 points ago

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Chrome automatically provides a linked to a cached copy of the page from Google. I was pleasantly surprised

[–]theninjagreg 0 points1 point ago

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Ya, but it doesn't have pictures!

[–]weekendwarrior 0 points1 point ago

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that's weird. It did for me a little while ago but now it doesn't. Maybe too many people are hitting it?

[–]Rubin0 0 points1 point ago

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WebMD?

[–]theninjagreg 4 points5 points ago

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Will try it...I guess...

[–]keydemographic 2 points3 points ago

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I was JUST making a techno-jargon and Back to the Future joke with an older engineer about electric guitar pickups and his classic car restoration project when I decided I wanted to send him the link to the Turboencabulator. I was :(

[–]tokage 2 points3 points ago

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Nice try, Wikipedia fund-raiser.

[–]square_cubed 1 point2 points ago

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Holy shit they're on to me. Jim, you said this would work!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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The same can be said of women.

[–]Mad_Gouki 7 points8 points ago

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The deletionists won...

[–]HMSuperb 5 points6 points ago

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You know what sucks? I had to take an exam today, but it was an electronic one and we were allowed to use the internet. However, Wikipedia was down throughout the entire duration of the exam...

[–]danchan22 6 points7 points ago*

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Explanation from the Wikimedia Technical Blog:

Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access from European users, we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster, for which we have a standard quick failover procedure in place, that changes our DNS entries.

However, shortly after we did this failover switch, it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally. This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects.

We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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This is why you test. Then test again.

[–]sovtek 3 points4 points ago

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It comes up on my computer, minus the pictures

[–]w48 1 point2 points ago

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Same here, using my own DNS server, only wikimedia seems to be down.

[–]cajun_super_coder 2 points3 points ago

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Thats funny... Down for everyone or just me is reporting it as up. :-/

[–]honorio 0 points1 point ago

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Strange. There's very little information around - from more tech-savvy people than me.

[–]Antebios 2 points3 points ago

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OK!!! Who Googled "Google"? Reddit was down, and now Wikipedia? What's next, Wikileaks?

[–]sealclubber 1 point2 points ago

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See, now, this is what happens when you hire in some newb intern at the datacenter, and they think that the air conditioning is set too cold...

[–]AirRaven 1 point2 points ago

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Answers.com - Decent substitute for the interim.

[–]celticagent 1 point2 points ago

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1:56 EST still down

[–]esac17 7 points8 points ago

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I think you all mean EDT

[–][deleted] ago

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[–]20thMaine 5 points6 points ago

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What're you, in that one part of Indiana that doesn't use daylight savings time? It is Eastern Daylight Time for now.

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[–]20thMaine 4 points5 points ago

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:)

[–]m1ss1ontomars2k4 0 points1 point ago

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Pay more attention then.

[–]lukemcr 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah, except it's Eastern Daylight Time now.

[–]disco_biscuit -1 points0 points ago

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1:57 EST still down

[–]giesse 0 points1 point ago

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works from here (Italy)

[–]bluesmojo -1 points0 points ago

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2:04 EST still down

[–]greediculous -1 points0 points ago

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2:12 EST Working now.

[–]stopwatchingporn 1 point2 points ago

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11:16 PST You lie!!

[–]f45tEddie 0 points1 point ago

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19:27 GMT still down.

PS, this is why we need to switch over to universal GMT.

[–]finite 1 point2 points ago

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Zulu time

[–]f45tEddie 0 points1 point ago

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Thanks, I didn't know that designation.

[–]bluesmojo 0 points1 point ago

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phew!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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[citation needed]

[–]barroomhero 2 points3 points ago

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OMG, when it's back up, lets copypasta all of it onto reddit for backup purposes. Just in case it happens again.

[–]9jack9 0 points1 point ago

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What the hell is CST?

[–]embryo 0 points1 point ago

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http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com lied to me.

[–]_dustinm_ 0 points1 point ago

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hey, I'm in CDT and didn't know that either! TIL!

[–]girkabob 0 points1 point ago

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It seems to work now, as of 1:24 PM CST.

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