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If Wikipedia does not work at all, go to the Wikipedia Status page on OpenFacts. That page will tell you what is wrong and the developers will say if they are fixing it.
There is a page on OpenFacts where you can write Wikipedia pages and then move them here when Wikipedia is fixed.
IRC: when something is going to be fixed and this will stop Wikipedia working, then it will be said at #wikipedia on irc.freenode.net.
Google keeps a copy of one version of every Wikipedia page (except redirect pages, but including pages resulting from redirects). Since Google checks the contents of pages once every one or two months, the saved version may not be the latest. Also, neither older versions are kept, nor the revision history listing. In the case that Google has saved multiple copies of an article, due to redirects, one may want to check which one is more recent.
Thus, through Google one can still read and search the contents of Wikipedia, albeit not always the latest content; see below.
Google search of Wikipedia[edit]
By following the link below, you can use the Google search engine to search Wikipedia. Google silently ignores stop words and indexes all namespaces and all language Wikipedias. A search phrase is possible.
Google updates its index about once a month, the search is based on the contents at that time!
The search is based on the text the browser shows, not on the source text which is seen in the Wikipedia edit box.
Using Google to search Wikipedia is faster. After finding an article, one can choose to view the current version or the cached one. The cached version may not be the same as the current version on Wikipedia, but it is faster to view and is always available.
Use Google to search Wikipedia
It also searches many other language versions (those also on wikipedia.org), including Dutch, German and French, but not those on wikipedia.com, which include Afrikaans, Frisian, Italian and Simple English.