![wiki 1530737c 300x187 Wikipedia was down, and now we know why [Updated]](http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2010/07/wiki_1530737c-300x187.jpg "wiki 1530737c 300x187 photo")
As of the time of this writing, Wikipedia has been down and out for around 40 minutes. As of yet, there is no explanation as to why, but Twitter seems to be buzzing about it as well.
It’s not the first time, and certainly not the last. The last time, in the latter days of March, Wikipedia felt a hard knock for quite a few hours. Again, at that time, Twitter users were the first to seem to realize what had happened.
As of yet, there is no information regarding the outage on the Wikipedia Technical Blog. It’s unclear as to whether or not this is similar in relation to the last outage, attributed to an overheating DNS server.
We’ll, of course, keep you updated as we find out more.
For now, this is what we have:
![doodle Wikipedia was down, and now we know why [Updated]](http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2010/07/doodle.png "doodle photo")
According to Gabe Rivera’s Twitter, the reason behind this down time has to do with an outage at the Florida data center in the US.
Update: The site appears to be back now, and fully functional.
COME BACK!!!!! I feel so lost without my brain!
What happened with the last outage was that a heating issue killed one of the two datacenters (the one in Amsterdam), and the increased pressure from handling all the traffic eventually brought down the servers in Florida too.
The good news is that it’s part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s plan to open up a new U.S. data center to prevent this in the future. Also, to make a plug, donating helps pay to keep the servers up and running…
Yes – I just noticed this too. I need wikipedia for my job! Come back please!!
IRC channel topic says “Status: Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites are currently DOWN due to cooling issues at the Tampa datacenter”
Brad! Honestly, do you really believe that Twitter users were the “first” to notice the WMF sites were down? No! It was the WMF users themselves that were the first to notice a problem. Get real dude!
Waaa. I wanted to look at random file systems and flash based memory!
Wikipedia IS working.
Just extremely poorly. Basically, I left a window open that was attempting to load an article. A really really poor version came up about five minutes later. It’s having issues, but it isn’t “down.”
The English version (en.wikipedia.org) works fine, it’s just the main site (wikipedia.org) that doesn’t work.
http://wapedia.mobi/
Gmanyo is right^^ So don’t panic <3
Back up?
@David M: If you are the David I am thinking of, i’m scared right now 0_o
I hope this won’t happen again. Wiki is what Britannica used to be in 80s.
ya the Wikipedia is the best before than now..but what changes or update to need it..???
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Wikipedia has been down here for two weeks!!! I can’t stand it!!!!!!!
It’s driving me mad
the only page that i get access to is simple.wikipedia.org