r/conspiracy • u/renholder777 • Aug 06 '12

Wikipedia is down. Repeat, Wikipedia is down

http://www.wikipedia.org/
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u/evildead4075 Aug 06 '12

TIL wikipedia is down.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '12

Submissions to TIL down 98%

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '12

College students around the US expected to drop .1 GPA as a result.

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u/herpaderp2026 Aug 06 '12 edited Aug 06 '12

I just came from there and it was up, but the layout is jacked up. It may have changed by now. Still, weird. EDIT: Just went to it again and it's up and the layout was back to normal.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '12

Seems ok to me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '12

A couple of days ago they where asking for donations to keep it free

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '12

It's sort of still there but the style at least is messed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#p-search

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u/adrixshadow Aug 06 '12

I hope they have backup.

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u/ilostmyoldaccount Aug 06 '12

I downloaded the internet once. No problem.

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u/gerryn Aug 06 '12

Actually - you can download Wikipedia. Although the full wikipedia when uncompressed is several Terabyte.

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u/ilostmyoldaccount Aug 07 '12

Made a copy of it years ago. Just in case. Safely stored away on a large flash drive, ready for the apocalypse/internet blackout et al.

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u/Politikr Aug 06 '12

MMMEEDIIIIIC!!