Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts Blogs: Can you agree to a contract by simply accessing a site? News: Q&A: Jay Walsh, spokesperson for Wikimedia News: Level 3 Increases Metro Connectivity in Dublin With the Linking of 5 Area Data Centers News: PEER 1 Hosting Launches Microsoft Hosted Exchange Packages in the UK News: Equinix Opens Washington DC Data Center, Plans Singapore Expansion (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As a non-profit organization, the Wikimedia Foundation ( www.wikimedia.org ) has relied on the donations of individuals and groups to maintain the popular Wikipedia ( www.wikipedia.org ), and its other sites. So it’s not necessarily surprising that these sites have had issues in the past with outages, as in the case of the July 5th outage which affected all Wikimedia sites following power failures at its Tampa, Florida data center.