At about 11:00 Eastern Time Wikipedia is down. The reason is the power outage in Florida.
While the public encyclopedia was down, a message on its website read that the reason is related to Meta. Another sentence read that it could not connect to the Database. Now the reason is known. @Wikipedia just tweeted ad thanked the site's visitors for being patient. "We've figured out the problem: power outage in our Florida data center. Slowly coming back online," read @wikipedia tweet.
"Meta has a problem. Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties. Try waiting a few minute and reloading," read the message on Wikipedia's website while it was down.
Then one line lower in parenthesis a short sentence read the following. "Can't contact the database server. Unkonw error (10.0.6.27).
The logo on the down page was of Wikimedia Meta-Wiki's, which offered a search box, but warned that Google's indexes "of our content may be out of date."
Currently Wikipedia is up, but looks like one of the world's largest websites has been done for more tan 30 minutes.
Written by Armen Hareyan
HULIQ.com
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