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Wikipedia - totally screwed up for 3 weeks???

mumhaabu · 2009-03-19 23:06:42

I am not a fan of the site but it it is gone awfully slow in the last two weeks, and alot of pages will not load. On Eircom 7.6meg, anyone else experiencing the total collapse of Wikipedia's servers?

19-03-2009 11:06pm

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mumhaabu

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I am not a fan of the site but it it is gone awfully slow in the last two weeks, and alot of pages will not load. On Eircom 7.6meg, anyone else experiencing the total collapse of Wikipedia's servers?

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#2 19-03-2009 11:07pm

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Essay deadlines must be coming up soon so

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#3 19-03-2009 11:10pm

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Long past that, and most places will not accept Wikipedia as a credible source of information, still it is a laugh reading some of the stuff on it as it is so biased towards the liberal left.

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#4 19-03-2009 11:16pm

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it gives sources.. so you goto them pages and that's your reference.

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#5 19-03-2009 11:16pm

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Never had a problem with it.

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#6 19-03-2009 11:19pm

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Moved from After Hours.

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#7 19-03-2009 11:20pm

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Blogs/Wikis Never knew such a forum existed.

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#8 19-03-2009 11:20pm

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Always use wikipedia as a reference tool, never as a verbatim source!

Edit: where an I

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#9 19-03-2009 11:22pm

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i've noticed that as well takes forever to get going , must have some server problems

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