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milankragujevic on Jan 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Access to Wikipedia restored in Turkey after more ...

Wikipedia is down for me today, as well as a large part of Europe.

Their tweet: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/1221513346781982722

Could it be the Turkish regime DDoS-ing their servers?

diminish on Jan 26, 2020 | [–]

Wikipedia is up in Turkey for already a week I guess. So no.

AnotherGoodName on Jan 26, 2020 | [–]

Probably an accidental DDoS.

Deny a whole country for more than 2 years then allow them to view the site. Suddenly you have 80+ million people all trying to catch up.

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