Wikipedia was down today for quite some time and was displaying an error message stating that “Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties”. Refer to the screen shot below! Wikipedia has always been a rich source of information for all the people around the world and it nearly attracts 132,730,000 users / month.
Have you ever heard Wikipedia being down before? Is it a beginning of an end or a great episode coming to an end in World Wide Web? Wikipedia has been a great place for information retrieval and this day will be remembered for sure!
Though the error page given has been provided with an option to search from Google, there is no relevant information there. When I searched for the phrase “Michael Jackson” it provides only lukewarm information. Do I really need this from Wikipedia???
Let’s jump to conclusion with a survey in the Wikipedia way itself (User Generated Content). Wikipedia was down because of ,
- Spammers
- Virus
- Data Base Problems
- Others
Do comment on what you think as the reason for Wikipedia’s current state.
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