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posted by martyb on Sunday September 08 2019, @07:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-just-people-rejecting-my-edits dept.

#wikipediadown

This Friday,

[t]he online encyclopedia [Wikipedia] was forced offline for several hours across Europe and the Middle East, and the site battled the attack to restore service. The Wikimedia Foundation -- the organization behind the site -- condemned the attack saying it wanted to protect the "fundamental right" for people to be able to "freely access and share information".

The actors behind the attack are not known (or not yet disclosed), however it was noted that there are several countries in the region which are "eager to censor the site."

The full text of the Wikimedia Foundation's statement about the attacks can be found here

Maps of the areas affected by the outage are available here and here


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:06PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:06PM (#891420)

    Dude. Just download Wikipedia. You can use Kiwix if you want a reader included. It was not a problem.

    Kind Regards,
    A diagnosed datahoarder

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:18PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @10:18PM (#891425)

    To hell with Wikipedia. I wanna download all of Reddit, Front Page of the Internet.

    I wanna download all of Free Basics, the Internet by Facebook.

    I wanna download the whole internet, which means today, like, three sites. Because the rest is just fake news. Dude.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @01:33AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @01:33AM (#891482)

      To hell with Wikipedia. I wanna download all of Reddit, Front Page of the Internet.

      If you think Reddit is the front page of the internet then you really need to get out more.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @02:50AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @02:50AM (#891511)
        Have you seen Reddit ever? It's right there in the title.

        <title>reddit: the front page of the internet</title>
        • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @04:05PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @04:05PM (#891728)

          Have you seen Reddit ever? It's right there in the title.

          The fact that they think they are the front page of the internet means nothing to me.