Wikipedia Is Down

Wikipedia, the extremely popular crowdsourced online encyclopedia, is inaccessible for users across the world as of Monday morning.

A tweet sent by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia, said the site's engineers were busy at work on fixing "some technical issues:"

We're having some technical issues, but our engineers are working on it. We'll be back soon! ur1.ca/47ok4— Wikimedia (@Wikimedia) August 6, 2012

Status.wikipedia.org, a public site that shows the health of Wikipedia's servers, shows red lights across the board.

Twenty-five million Wikipedia users visit the English-language site alone every day. Some Internet users who rely on Wik…
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