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werespielchequers at gmail

Aug 6, 2012, 7:52 AM

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[Wikimedia-l] This afternoon's system outage

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. Rumour has
it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far none of
the parties to various incidents on the Dwamah boards have fessed up as
responsible. If anyone in the know could give more details it would be nice.

TTFN

WSC
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dgerard at gmail

Aug 6, 2012, 7:53 AM

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On 6 August 2012 15:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers [at] gmail> 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. Rumour has
> it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far none of
> the parties to various incidents on the Dwamah boards have fessed up as
> responsible. If anyone in the know could give more details it would be nice.

Please do, it's making the news already (Mashable, CNet) and the BBC
just called to ask about it :-)

Front page is back for me, fwiw.

- d.

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stevie.benton at wikimedia

Aug 6, 2012, 8:01 AM

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] This afternoon's system outage [In reply to]

We're back in the UK. I've had a couple of media enquiries too.

The strange appearance was because the stylesheets weren't loading.

Thanks,

Stevie

On 6 August 2012 15:53, David Gerard <dgerard [at] gmail> wrote:

> On 6 August 2012 15:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers [at] gmail>
> 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. Rumour
> has
> > it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far none
> of
> > the parties to various incidents on the Dwamah boards have fessed up as
> > responsible. If anyone in the know could give more details it would be
> nice.
>
>
> Please do, it's making the news already (Mashable, CNet) and the BBC
> just called to ask about it :-)
>
> Front page is back for me, fwiw.
>
>
> - d.
>
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dgerard at gmail

Aug 6, 2012, 8:02 AM

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On 6 August 2012 15:53, David Gerard <dgerard [at] gmail> wrote:
> On 6 August 2012 15:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers [at] gmail> 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. Rumour has
>> it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far none of
>> the parties to various incidents on the Dwamah boards have fessed up as
>> responsible. If anyone in the know could give more details it would be nice.

> Please do, it's making the news already (Mashable, CNet) and the BBC
> just called to ask about it :-)
> Front page is back for me, fwiw.

According to #wikimedia-tech a few hours ago, a cut fibre cable:

"Wikipedia is currently down due to networking issues (read: fiber
being accidentally cut) in the Tampa Datacenter."

- d.

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delirium at hackish

Aug 6, 2012, 8:07 AM

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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

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correia.rui at gmail

Aug 6, 2012, 8:18 AM

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] This afternoon's system outage [In reply to]

Hi

Would this be a EN Wikipedia issue only?

Portuguese is acting funny too - the prompt/ auto-complete in the
search field is not working properly, nor is the search function
itself.

Rui

On 6 August 2012 16:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers [at] gmail> wrote:
> Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come back
>
>
> TTFN
>
> WSC
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richard.symonds at wikimedia

Aug 6, 2012, 8:30 AM

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No, this is all wikis - I believe it was everything with *wikimedia or
*wikipedia. NL was acting up, as well as various WMF-hosted chapter wikis.

The search function will take a while to start working properly, too, for
the same reasons as Delirium states.

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On 6 August 2012 16:18, Rui Correia <correia.rui [at] gmail> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Would this be a EN Wikipedia issue only?
>
> Portuguese is acting funny too - the prompt/ auto-complete in the
> search field is not working properly, nor is the search function
> itself.
>
> Rui
>
> On 6 August 2012 16:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers [at] gmail>
> wrote:
> > Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come
> back
> >
> >
> > TTFN
> >
> > WSC
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Wikimedia-l [at] lists
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>
> Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186
> N�mero de Telem�vel na �frica do Sul +27 74 425 4186
> "Quando a verdade � substitu�da pelo sil�ncio, o sil�ncio � uma
> mentira" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
> "When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie" - Yevgeny
> Yevtushenko
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richard.symonds at wikimedia

Aug 6, 2012, 8:30 AM

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correia.rui at gmail

Aug 6, 2012, 8:44 AM

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Thanks Richard

Rui

On 6 August 2012 17:30, Richard Symonds
<richard.symonds [at] wikimedia> wrote:
> No, this is all wikis - I believe it was everything with *wikimedia or
> *wikipedia. NL was acting up, as well as various WMF-hosted chapter wikis.
>
> The search function will take a while to start working properly, too, for
> the same reasons as Delirium states.
>
> Richard Symonds
> Wikimedia UK
> 0207 065 0992
> Disclaimer viewable at
> http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer
> Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
>
>
>
> On 6 August 2012 16:18, Rui Correia <correia.rui [at] gmail> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Would this be a EN Wikipedia issue only?
>>
>> Portuguese is acting funny too - the prompt/ auto-complete in the
>> search field is not working properly, nor is the search function
>> itself.
>>
>> Rui
>>
>> On 6 August 2012 16:52, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers [at] gmail>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come
>> back
>> >
>> >
>> > TTFN
>> >
>> > WSC
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Wikimedia-l mailing list
>> > Wikimedia-l [at] lists
>> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Rui Correia
>> Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant
>> Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant
>>
>> Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186
>> N�mero de Telem�vel na �frica do Sul +27 74 425 4186
>> "Quando a verdade � substitu�da pelo sil�ncio, o sil�ncio � uma
>> mentira" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
>> "When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie" - Yevgeny
>> Yevtushenko
>> _______________
>>
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