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21 February, 2005 10:45 PM Chatmag News.

Wikipedia, the popular user edited online encyclopedia, has been shut down by a power outage at their colocation facility.  Wikipedia has been in the news recently, the latest regarding Wikipedia and Google.com Google has offered to host the site, and a meeting is planned for March between the Wikipedia Foundation and Google.

A temporary information page is appearing in lieu of the usual Wikipedia pages, explaining the outage and estimated time to recover.

According to the Wikipedia information page:

"At about 14:15 PST some circuit breakers were tripped in the colocation facility where our servers are housed. Although the facility has a well-stocked generator, this took out power to places inside the facility, including the switch that connects us to the network and all our servers.

After some minutes, the switch and most of our machines had rebooted. Some of our servers required additional work to get up, and a few may still be sitting there dead but can be worked around.

Update 19:20 PST: We have at least one database server with intact data. When we have a second up and running, we'll be able to put the site back online in read-only mode as we continue."

The Wikipedia site encompasses over 170gb of database's on several servers, and it is unknown as to when Wikipedia will be fully functional.

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