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===Problems continue=== Early in the week and continuing over from last week, complaints continued to come in that Wikipedia was practically unusable, whether for editing or browsing. Particularly for peak periods of activity in North America, virtually any page load would take up to a minute, or more often it would simply time out altogether. At one point, the [[OpenFacts]] project, which hosts an off-site page for Wikipedia status reports, was also not responding. The error messages being generated there resembled those on Wikipedia when a database query has failed. Since the status page on OpenFacts is linked on many of the error messages provided by Wikipedia's servers, it seems somewhat plausible to suggest that OpenFacts may have been experiencing a [[Slashdot effect]] of incoming traffic from frustrated Wikipedians (crashdotting, anyone?).
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