Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down

Just a few weeks after a major power outage took out LiveJournal, almost all of Wikimedia Foundation’s services are offline due to a tripped circuit breaker at a different colocation. Among other services, Wikimedia runs the well-known Wikipedia open encyclopedia. Coincidentally, the foundation is in the middle of a fundraising drive to pay for new servers. They have established an off-site backup of the fundraising page until power returns”