Stanislav Kozlovsky, managing director of the nonprofit partnership Wikimedia.Ru (which manages the Russian version of Wikipedia), told socialbites.ca that he does not know what caused the global failure of the online encyclopedia. According to him, the site will be restored “in a second”.
“The global outage occurred at 9:25 UTC, i.e. 12:25. According to the current information, it is not yet clear what happened. The technicians made corrections at 12:36 Moscow time, that is, 5 minutes ago, in theory they should help. watching the situation. In principle, Wikipedia already opens for me, no problem. Check it. It can be seen from all graphs that the number of errors has decreased. So, apparently, second to second [восстановится. – «Газета.Ru»]. will discover [причины. – «Газета.Ru]But it will take some time,” he said.
Previously, the website of the online encyclopedia “Wikipedia” was simultaneously closed to visitors in many countries of the world. According to the DownDetector portal, the site “dropped”, including in the USA, Russia and European countries. Users complain about the inability to make changes to the articles or even go to the online resource. When trying to visit Wikipedia, an error is shown stating that “the servers are under maintenance or are experiencing outages”. According to the information at the bottom of the page, the cause of the failure is the 503 error.