Wikimedia incident

API availability issues

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Wikimedia experienced a major incident on September 11, 2025 affecting Editing, lasting 32m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 11, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 11, 2025, 10:36 AM UTC
Duration
32m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 11, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC

Affected components

Editing

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 11, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC

    We have noticed an increase in 500 errors from our internal and external APIs. We are investigating the cause

  2. investigating Sep 11, 2025, 10:15 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. monitoring Sep 11, 2025, 10:15 AM UTC

    A hardware failure has been identified and mitigated, we are monitoring the situation.

  4. resolved Sep 11, 2025, 10:36 AM UTC

    All APIs are operational.