Re: lt.wikipedia

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Daniel Mayer wrote:

> >Today is the second day when lt.wikipedia.org shows
> >"internal server error". Is it a technical difficulty or the
> >site has been deleted?
>
> Yes - the English cabal has decided that Italian is no longer a language we
> want to have so we deleted it. Come on - we would not do that (even if there
> was a cabal!). :-) Italian is a wonderful language and I'm proud that it
> already has over 4,000 articles (the second largest UseMod Wikipedia).

The person was talking about lt.wikipedia.org, not it.wikipedia.org - that's
Lithuanian, not Italian.

> Sadly (or maybe 'happily') Wikipedia is so popular that we are almost
> constantly having server problems. So until the new big powerful database
> server is installed and our second webserver is finally upgraded, we will
> have poor response times. That means that we will sometimes get '404', 'Page
> cannot be displayed' and 'internal server error' messages until the upgrades
> are complete.

Yes, but that usually hits many or all languages at the same time. Not one
language for days in a row while the others are unperturbed.

> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi works fine for me, BTW...
Try http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi instead.

Andre Engels