Though Wikipedia is working now, it was not working earlier today. People on Twitter were producing dozens of tweets per minute on the uncommon error message they were getting when trying to access the site. According to the Wikipedia Tech Blog, "overheating in the European data center and broken DNL resolution" caused the unexpected outage. They were then forced to move user traffic to the "Florida cluster" but shortly after, the Wikimedia sites stopped working globally. The problem was eventually resolved, but it was a major inconvenience for the people that needed it at the time it was down.
If I needed Wikipedia and found out that the "server was not found," I would probably fall into a state of panic for a minute but then remember that I can still Google search anything and everything I need to find at the click of a mouse button.
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