Wikimedia Outage History

Wikimedia is up right now

Wikimedia had 15 outages in the last 2 years totaling 49h 34m of downtime — averaging 0.6 incidents per month.

There were 15 Wikimedia outages since October 1, 2025 totaling 49h 34m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://www.wikimediastatus.net

Critical September 23, 2026

Service disruption

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 23, 2026, 05:26 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 23, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC
Duration
1h 47m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 5 updates
  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.

Read the full incident report →

Major August 25, 2026

Wikipedia and other sites slow or unavailable

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 25, 2026, 06:24 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 25, 2026, 07:56 PM UTC
Duration
1h 31m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 25, 2026, 06:24 PM UTC

    We are aware that many users are having trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, and we are investigating.

  2. monitoring Aug 25, 2026, 07:33 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Aug 25, 2026, 07:56 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Minor July 30, 2026

Connectivity issues from Russia

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 30, 2026, 10:08 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 31, 2026, 10:09 AM UTC
Duration
1d
Affected: Reading
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Jul 30, 2026, 10:08 AM UTC

    They were reports of connectivity issues from Russia outside of our control. The issues mostly affect image and media serving.

  2. resolved Jul 31, 2026, 10:09 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Major July 1, 2026

Ongoing network outage, users might be unable to reach the wikis

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 01, 2026, 02:44 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 01, 2026, 02:48 PM UTC
Duration
4m
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Jul 01, 2026, 02:44 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Jul 01, 2026, 02:45 PM UTC

    The outage is currently recovering at 14:45 UTC

  3. investigating Jul 01, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  4. resolved Jul 01, 2026, 02:48 PM UTC

    The impact is resolved, we are monitoring the site health.

Read the full incident report →

Notice April 2, 2026

Wikipedia and other wikis reporting errors with edits

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 02, 2026, 11:17 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 02, 2026, 02:27 PM UTC
Duration
3h 9m
Affected: Editing
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 02, 2026, 11:17 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue which is causing a number of edits to Wiki's to fail. Investigation continuing and updates to follow.

  2. resolved Apr 02, 2026, 02:27 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Minor March 5, 2026

Wikis were in read only mode

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 05, 2026, 03:36 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 06, 2026, 12:05 AM UTC
Duration
8h 28m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. investigating Mar 05, 2026, 03:36 PM UTC

    We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, and we are investigating.

  2. identified Mar 05, 2026, 04:11 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. identified Mar 05, 2026, 05:09 PM UTC

    Wikis are back in read write mode, but some functionalities are still disabled

  4. monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 05:36 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Some editing functionality will still be disabled.

  5. monitoring Mar 05, 2026, 06:36 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  6. resolved Mar 06, 2026, 12:05 AM UTC

    Wikis have been read-write for several hours, and we have now restored most user scripting capabilities.

Read the full incident report →

Minor March 3, 2026

Edits to Wikipedia and other wikis are delayed

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 03, 2026, 10:09 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 03, 2026, 10:24 AM UTC
Duration
14m
Affected: Editing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Mar 03, 2026, 10:09 AM UTC

    We have discovered an issue with our database servers and are working on a fix.

  2. monitoring Mar 03, 2026, 10:17 AM UTC

    We think we have fixed the database issue, but we are watching to make sure.

  3. resolved Mar 03, 2026, 10:24 AM UTC

    Everything is back to normal.

Read the full incident report →

Major February 26, 2026

Issues and degraded performance accessing Wikis

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 26, 2026, 04:25 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 26, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC
Duration
32m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Feb 26, 2026, 04:25 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  2. resolved Feb 26, 2026, 04:58 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Minor February 20, 2026

Issues and slow down in Europe

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 20, 2026, 07:03 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 20, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC
Duration
4h 29m
Affected: Reading
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Feb 20, 2026, 07:03 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Feb 20, 2026, 07:28 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring Feb 20, 2026, 07:44 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Feb 20, 2026, 11:33 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Notice December 23, 2025

Increase of wiki errors.

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 23, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 23, 2025, 01:16 PM UTC
Duration
3h 13m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Dec 23, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an increased amount of errors with some wikis.

  2. monitoring Dec 23, 2025, 11:30 AM UTC

    The issue seems to be recovered - we are still monitoring.

  3. resolved Dec 23, 2025, 01:16 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Major December 3, 2025

Trouble with some wikis

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 03, 2025, 05:36 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 03, 2025, 06:24 PM UTC
Duration
47m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Dec 03, 2025, 05:36 PM UTC

    We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, and we are investigating.

  2. monitoring Dec 03, 2025, 05:44 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Dec 03, 2025, 06:24 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Minor November 15, 2025

Trouble with images and thumbnails

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 15, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 15, 2025, 12:40 AM UTC
Duration
39m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Nov 15, 2025, 12:00 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Nov 15, 2025, 12:15 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring Nov 15, 2025, 12:24 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Nov 15, 2025, 12:40 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Notice October 8, 2025

Connectivity issues for EMEA users

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 08, 2025, 09:09 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 08, 2025, 09:27 AM UTC
Duration
17m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Oct 08, 2025, 09:09 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  2. resolved Oct 08, 2025, 09:27 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →

Notice October 3, 2025

Availability issues with wikis

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 03, 2025, 07:31 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 03, 2025, 07:47 AM UTC
Duration
16m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Oct 03, 2025, 07:31 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Oct 03, 2025, 07:40 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Oct 03, 2025, 07:47 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →