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Wikipedia and other sites slow or unavailable
- pferde 22d agoI knew it, Dolly Parton was the only thing keeping Wikipedia going! :(
- britta 22d agoBrief technical writeup after a similar event in 2009 when Michael Jackson died: https://wikitech-static.wikimedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_effect.html https://wikitech-static.wikimedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_e...
- britta 22d agoAlso, in case anyone is inspired, Wikimedia Foundation happens to have a SRE position open: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/7972965 https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/7972965
- dlcarrier 22d agoYou can download a copy of Wikipedia here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/ https://dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/ I highly recommend it (although wait until their servers aren't overloaded) especially if you can fit a copy on a phone or laptop, so you always have access to whatever article you need, even on the go and when you don't have internet access. Use Kiwix to parse and search the file.