Wikimedia incident

Service disruption

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Wikimedia experienced a critical incident on September 23, 2026 affecting Reading and Editing, lasting 1h 47m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 23, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 23, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC
Duration
1h 47m
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 23, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC

Affected components

ReadingEditing

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 23, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Sep 23, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  3. monitoring Sep 23, 2026, 05:42 PM UTC

    We are aware that many users had trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. We experienced a power failure and have moved services over to a different data center. Services should be restoring.

  4. monitoring Sep 23, 2026, 06:48 PM UTC

    Services are in the process of coming up. We will update this page when resolved

  5. resolved Sep 23, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC

    Services are back up. We are continuing to monitor.