Wikipedia's main page down

Mon, 06 August 2012

19:37

Wikipedia appears to be experiencing severe technical problems, with users around the world unable to access the site's main page and article pages lacking images or stylesheet information.

Pointing a browser at "en.wikipedia.org" currently throws up a boilerplate error message advising users that the problem "should be fixed soon."A separate but unverified statement posted in the site's IRC channel gives more detail: "Wikipedia is currently down due to networking issues.

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