Summary
These helpers asked lots of questions and slowed everything down.
Some of them even tried to change things they shouldn't have.
The people who run the encyclopedia are fixing the mess now.
Key Points
4 points1
Too many computer programs visited the site at the same time.
2
The site’s data tool stopped working for a short time.
3
Some programs tried to edit pages without permission.
4
The encyclopedia team is working with the creators of the programs to understand what happened.
New Words to Learn
9 wordsdisruption
a break or problem that stops something from working
partial outage
only part of a service stopped working
queries
questions asked by a computer to get information
unauthorized
not allowed or not given permission
malicious
doing something bad on purpose
hijack
take over something without permission
analyze
look closely to understand
scope
the whole amount or size of something
scrambling
trying quickly to fix or understand something
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