Wikipedia blocked? Again?

By dub_khurram
April 22nd, 2006 @ 1:35 PM Thoughts and Rants

I have been trying to access Wikipedia since yesterday but keep getting a Connection Timeout. Has the PTA (stupidly) blocked it again?

13 Comments so far

  1. MB (unregistered) on April 22nd, 2006 @ 1:44 pm

    No way. Its working.

    Try this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


  2. Anathema (unregistered) on April 22nd, 2006 @ 6:50 pm

    accessible to me.


  3. Jay the big J (Jamash) (unregistered) on April 22nd, 2006 @ 6:58 pm

    Hey! Why is every one trying to give me a Heart Attack !?
    1) Today morning the New Feature Of Orkut hit me !
    2) And now You tell me that wikipedia is Banned .. But no! Thank God it’s working .. :)


  4. satire (unregistered) on April 22nd, 2006 @ 10:29 pm

    Orkut gave me a heart attack tooooo! Now what’s the fun of going on if you can’t browse through people’s profiles. Now I can’t even look at the profiles of people I don’t like cause they’ll know I looked at them! :)


  5. satire (unregistered) on April 22nd, 2006 @ 10:30 pm

    And my Wikipedia is working too…


  6. aka (unregistered) on April 22nd, 2006 @ 10:50 pm

    :D. yeah, the Orkut feature was a little off-putting. my guess is whatever mkt research/ customer behavior they tapped into, was not qute representative of the overall way that people use Orkut. hopefully, they’ll catch on to the changed usage patterns soon and adapt accordingly.


  7. quratulain khan (unregistered) on April 22nd, 2006 @ 11:51 pm

    lol @ jay and satire. you can go to “settings” and opt to not go for the new profile views feature on orkut :)


  8. Jay the big J (Jamash) (unregistered) on April 23rd, 2006 @ 1:10 am

    But then I won’t know who’s stalking Me :|
    I wanna know who looks at my profiles .. That’s Fun :)


  9. Adnan (unregistered) on April 23rd, 2006 @ 2:23 am

    People this orkut feature made me mad too and after looking in help section i found that if you disbale that function in settings (as quratulain khan mentioned) others wont be able to know that u viewed their profile
    BUT then you also wont get to know who visited yours !!
    i think they should scrap this new thing !!

    and Wikipedia is working for me too !!


  10. tumhara janu (unregistered) on April 23rd, 2006 @ 11:13 am

    sab chal raha hai,

    tum sab log C ho.


  11. Adnan Siddiqi (unregistered) on April 23rd, 2006 @ 1:12 pm

    wiki works for me too maybe some issues with your ISP?

    i didnt know what orkut feature are you talking about but Qurat disclosed it finally:>

    tracking of visitiors means no candid visiting anymore:d,now my office mates(females) offcourse will know that i was Spying them:D

    this feature is already available on hi5.com for long time,glad to see this feature on Orkut too:>


  12. Ibrahim Mohammad (unregistered) on April 23rd, 2006 @ 8:03 pm

    I use wikipedia almost every day, well atleast for this week i used it everyday and its working fine, never faced a timeout. And just found out about the orkut feature from this post. And i dont think its scary in any way, i want to know who visits my profile and doesnt scraps me :)


  13. Saad (unregistered) on April 24th, 2006 @ 2:42 pm

    Wikipedia is not opening for me. I’m using a proxy it access it right now.



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