An apparent data center outage has put Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced encyclopedia, under for about two hours now. Visiting the site gives a user an error message, "Meta has a problem. Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties."
Steven Walling, a Wikipedia volunteer (and former ReadWriteWeb reporter), explains in a comment on NextWeb.
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In addition to fun and games, this function allows social networks and their users the capacity for a ...
Twitter is pumping out reports that Wikipedia has been down worldwide for nearly an hour, and if you travel to wikipedia.org or another Wikimedia property, you'll get confirmation in the form of a message saying, "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties."This is just a few hours after both the iTunes Store and YouTube were hacked, so it would seem ...
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Okay, maybe it's just me. But when you have a lot of people corroborating each other's reports that your product is malfunctioning, and a controversy is brewing over your silence on the issue, maybe this isn't the best way for your CEO to respond.
Or, to put it another way, "Dr. Jobs! Dr. Jobs! I broke my leg in three places!" ...
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