Wikimedia incident
Trouble with some wikis, editing unavailable on enwiki
Wikimedia experienced a major incident on September 19, 2025 affecting Reading and Editing, lasting 1h 24m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Sep 19, 2025, 05:08 PM UTC
We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, particularly enwiki, and we are investigating. At this time, edits to enwiki are unavailable, and read operations across all wikis may be degraded.
- identified Sep 19, 2025, 05:25 PM UTC
We have identified an issue impacting the enwiki database primary and continue to investigate. Edits should once again be available for enwiki, and read operations across wikis should no longer be degraded.
- monitoring Sep 19, 2025, 05:51 PM UTC
We are continuing to monitor and investigate potential triggers.
- resolved Sep 19, 2025, 06:32 PM UTC
This incident has resolved and we are investigating follow-up actions to prevent its recurrence in the future.