On 22 January 2011 12:37, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm having trouble loading any Wikimedia sites from here in the UK.
Anyone know what the problem is and what the best status page to check
is? I've found these ones so far:
http://ezyang.com/wikistatus/
You can try tracerouting it.
In Windows XP:
* Start
* Run
* cmd
* tracert www.wikipedia.org
and that will tell you where your connection is dying.
For example this what the traceroute may return:
C:\Documents and Settings\AAAtracert www.wikipedia.org
Tracing route to text.pmtpa.wikimedia.org
On 22 January 2011 12:37, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm having trouble loading any Wikimedia sites from here in the UK.
Anyone know what the problem is and what the best status page to check
is? I've found these ones so far:
I should add, en:wp is working fine for me in
On 22 January 2011 13:15, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
I may try that. But if it helps, the bit it seems to keep getting
stuck on is where the browser says:
waiting for bits.wikimedia.org
I've Googled that and some information is coming up, but not much that
I understand.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:21 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
$ traceroute bits.wikimedia.org
I did this, and if I'm understanding it right it took 19 hops. The
first one looks like my cable modem, the second one I don't recognise
at all(!), the next eight are my ISP, the eleventh is
On 22 January 2011 13:40, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:21 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
$ traceroute bits.wikimedia.org
I did this, and if I'm understanding it right it took 19 hops. The
first one looks like my cable modem, the second
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you having difficulty accessing any other sites? Wikipedia is
working perfectly for me (in the UK), so it's very unlikely to be a
problem with Wikipedia. The problem must be at your end.
bits.wikimedia.org is
On 22 January 2011 13:53, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
When I try and access en.wikipedia.org, it hangs when it tries to load
the CSS things from bits.wikimedia.org (if I wait long enough, it
loads a stripped-down version of the site). It might actually just be
a local cache
On 22 January 2011 12:37, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm having trouble loading any Wikimedia sites from here in the UK.
Anyone know what the problem is and what the best status page to check
is? I've found these ones so far:
http://ezyang.com/wikistatus/
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22 January 2011 13:53, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
When I try and access en.wikipedia.org, it hangs when it tries to load
the CSS things from bits.wikimedia.org (if I wait long enough, it
loads a
'I must be very naive not to have realised, all this time, that the
so-called English Wikipedia was actually the American Wikipedia.
Or could that nomenclature reveal a somewhat suspicious starting
point?'
I don't see a problem with that choice of words. While there are large
numbers of
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