a.crossman(a)blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Question: if Wikipedia was under a DOS attack of some
sort, would we
know about it? I ask because there was an incident of repeated
vandalism today, and just after that was dealt with, Wikipedia became
very (very) slow.
So I just thought a DOS attack was a possibility. Is it? :-)
Very unlikely. There's so much nastier things you could do to Wikipedia
than slow it down somewhat. Like deleting all the images, or using
Special:Movepage to shuffle the article titles.
-- Tim Starling