Wikipedia may face disruptions as it migrates to Virginia data center

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia may encounter service disruptions as it is migrated to servers at a data center in Ashburn, Va.

Wikimedia Foundation, the host of Wikipedia and other websites, said on Saturday it will move this week its main technical operations to the data center, which is intended to improve the technical performance and reliability of all Wikimedia sites.

“Our sites will be in read-only mode for some time, and may be intermittently inaccessible,” wrote Guillaume Paumier, technical communications manager at Wikimedia in a blog post. Users have been asked to be patient during interruptions expected from Tuesday to Thursday, and share information in case of continued outage or loss of functionality, he added.

“The current target windows for the migration are January 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2013, from 17:00 to 01:00 UTC.” Paumier said.

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