Wikimedia had 14 outages in the last 2 years totaling 25h 18m of downtime — averaging 0.6 incidents per month.
There were 14 Wikimedia outages since July 2, 2025 totaling 25h 18m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
We are currently investigating an issue which is causing a number of edits to Wiki's to fail. Investigation continuing and updates to follow.
This incident has been resolved.
We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, and we are investigating.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Wikis are back in read write mode, but some functionalities are still disabled
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Some editing functionality will still be disabled.
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
Wikis have been read-write for several hours, and we have now restored most user scripting capabilities.
We have discovered an issue with our database servers and are working on a fix.
We think we have fixed the database issue, but we are watching to make sure.
Everything is back to normal.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating this issue.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
A network interruption impacted some users accessing the wikis
We are currently investigating an increased amount of errors with some wikis.
The issue seems to be recovered - we are still monitoring.
This incident has been resolved.
We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, and we are investigating.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating this issue.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating this issue.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
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.
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.
We are continuing to monitor and investigate potential triggers.
This incident has resolved and we are investigating follow-up actions to prevent its recurrence in the future.
We have noticed an increase in 500 errors from our internal and external APIs. We are investigating the cause
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
A hardware failure has been identified and mitigated, we are monitoring the situation.
All APIs are operational.
We are investigating an issue affecting reading and editing on all wikis
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Commons API is unavailable
A fix has been implemented, and reads and edits are recovering.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
Incident resolved, editing at normal levels.