Access Restored to Wikipedia in Russia After Overnight Outage
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The online encyclopedia's website went down in Russia on the night of August 27-28. However, there is a way to access information that is inconvenient for the Kremlin. It's risky, but it works.
This is written by The Moscow Times. According to data from outage monitoring services, more than 500 complaints were received in total, and messages about the unavailability of the resource were received every few minutes.According to Russian technological media, Wikipedia does not open to some users without using a VPN. The head of the Internet Protection Society Mikhail Klimarev, referring to OONI data, noted that the availability of the reso…
Users from Russia complained about the disruption of Wikipedia's work. This is evidenced by data from the Sboot.rf and DownDetector services. Problems started after midnight, and by morning there were over a hundred complaints about Wikipedia on the Sboot.rf website (before the site had been stable at a maximum of seven complaints a day). DownDetector users say massively that they do not have a website. However, via VPN, Wikipedia opens without …
Russian users complained about problems with access to Wikipedia. The reasons for the failures are unknown.. Dozhd TV: news, video, broadcast, online, archive, program program.
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