{"id":273,"date":"2006-04-09T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/2006\/04\/wikipedia-down\/"},"modified":"2006-04-09T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T20:33:00","slug":"wikipedia-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/wikipedia-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia down?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/wiki_flash.gif\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\">I was in the middle of updating the article about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ASCII_art\">ASCII Art<\/a> at Wikipedia.org when the <b>site suddenly hung<\/b> when I attempted a preview of my changes.<\/p>\n<p>When nothing happened after over a minute did I quickly copied my changes to a local file as backup and check further. <b>Yes, Wikipeda is down.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now <b>over 1 hour<\/b> and no sign of of Wikipedia coming up again in sight. It can&#8217;t be routine maintenance or reboot of servers that&#8217;s causing this. <b>It must be something more serious.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>I <b>checked<\/b> my network, just to make sure that it is not just me who has the problem. Network is fine. I also connected remotely to a completely different network and tried to access Wikipedia.org from there&#8230; <b>nothing<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I did some other changes before today, which I did not backup locally. I hope that this &#8220;crash&#8221; of the Site does not result into any data loss and that they are up again soon, that I can complete my modifications.<\/p>\n<p>I am an active <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:Cumbrowski\">user at wikipedia<\/a> and updated or extended already multiple articles at the popular and free online encyclopedia. It&#8217;s the first time that I see the Site being down for such a long time which worries me a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that everything will be alright again later today.<\/p>\n<p>Carsten a.k.a. Roy\/SAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the middle of updating the article about ASCII Art at Wikipedia.org when the site suddenly hung when I attempted a preview of my changes. When nothing happened after over a minute did I quickly copied my changes to a local file as backup and check further. Yes, Wikipeda is down. It&#8217;s now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}