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Last night, the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia faced an unexpected outage that lasted for over an hour. The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, confirmed the incident and is currently working with its network provider to determine the cause of the issue.
The outage was due to a fibre optic cable connecting the two US data centers of the Wikimedia Foundation being cut. The Foundation operates two separate 10-g fibre optic cable connections between its data centers, and one of the redundant cables failed during the outage.
In June of this year, an undersea cable was damaged in Bangladesh, resulting in country-wide Internet connection issues. However, it's unclear whether this recent incident is related to the Bangladesh event or if it was caused by a different factor.
The name of the network operator running the fibre optic cable connection between the two Wikimedia data centers is not explicitly mentioned in available search results. Furthermore, no details were provided about any impact on Wikipedia's users or services during the outage, and no information was given about the timeline for resolving the issue.
The Wikimedia Foundation notified its users on Twitter about the technical issues, with its spokesperson stating that once the issue is fixed, it is no longer a concern. The Foundation suspects the cable cut could have been caused by farming equipment, road works, or even a squirrel, but no further information was provided about the potential cause of the cable cut.
The full report from the network provider is still pending, and the Foundation is working diligently to restore its services to full functionality. It took an additional hour for the site to return to normal operations after the initial outage.
The Wikimedia Foundation remains committed to providing its users with reliable and uninterrupted access to knowledge, and it is currently taking steps to ensure such incidents do not occur in the future.
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