From "you
know where"...
Due to the extremely high demands being placed on our servers,
possibly as a result of recent high levels of publicity generated by
recent events on Wikipedia, we have been forced to schedule a short
downtime period for database maintenance. Please do not be alarmed. We
hope to resume service very shortly.
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- The Wikipedia Review
This seems like a strong argument for more links rather than
fewer.
IIRC this also happened to Virgin Atlantic last year.
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