Wikimedia had 32 outages in the last 2 years totaling 62h 45m of downtime — averaging 1.3 incidents per month.
There were 32 Wikimedia outages since September 28, 2024 totaling 62h 45m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
We are aware that many users are having trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, and we are investigating.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
They were reports of connectivity issues from Russia outside of our control. The issues mostly affect image and media serving.
This incident has been resolved.
We are currently investigating this issue.
The outage is currently recovering at 14:45 UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
The impact is resolved, we are monitoring the site health.
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.
We are aware of issues with accessing images on some wikis, and we are investigating.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved
We are working on a fix.
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 investigating an issue impacting edits and / or logins, with impact beginning at approximately 2:55 UTC.
We have identified an issue that we believe is responsible for the impact to login sessions and edits, and are pursuing a fix.
The fix appears to be effective, and edit metrics are returning to normal, along with user reports of recovery. We will continue to monitor.
This incident has been resolved.
We are experiencing issue affecting media upload and download. We are investigating.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
Some users are experiencing connectivity issues to Wikimedia project pages. Staff are investigating the issue
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
This incident has been resolved.
We are aware of issues with accessing images, and we are investigating.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
We are aware that users are having trouble editing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis, and we are investigating.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
This incident has been resolved.