Wikimedia Outage History

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Wikimedia had 34 outages in the last 2 years totaling 12h 29m of downtime — averaging 1.4 incidents per month.

There were 34 Wikimedia outages since June 10, 2024 totaling 12h 29m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://www.wikimediastatus.net

Minor December 23, 2024

Occasional errors with Wikimedia commons media access

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 23, 2024, 08:08 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 23, 2024, 09:38 PM UTC
Duration
1h 29m
Affected: Editing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Dec 23, 2024, 08:08 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Dec 23, 2024, 08:44 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Dec 23, 2024, 09:38 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major December 5, 2024

Errors for logged in and some logged-out users

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 05, 2024, 05:02 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 05, 2024, 05:19 AM UTC
Duration
17m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. monitoring Dec 05, 2024, 05:02 AM UTC

    A primary database server for cached data experienced an issue serving requests. We have corrected the issue and services are recovering.

  2. resolved Dec 05, 2024, 05:19 AM UTC

    The remediation was successful.

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Major October 24, 2024

Database issues in the Dallas TX datacenter

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 24, 2024, 11:02 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 24, 2024, 02:02 PM UTC
Duration
3h
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Oct 24, 2024, 11:02 AM UTC

    Reading and editing is affected. We are investigating the issue.

  2. investigating Oct 24, 2024, 11:33 AM UTC

    We shifted read traffic to the secondary datacenter, which helped with the overloaded database. We are still investigating the root cause.

  3. monitoring Oct 24, 2024, 01:49 PM UTC

    We have repooled the primary datacenter for read traffic and are monitoring the situation while investigating the root cause.

  4. monitoring Oct 24, 2024, 01:52 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  5. resolved Oct 24, 2024, 02:02 PM UTC

    Traffic back to baseline, root cause investigation is still ongoing but the incident is resolved.

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Minor September 28, 2024

Site slow for users in the Asia region (eqsin)

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 28, 2024, 08:55 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 28, 2024, 10:43 PM UTC
Duration
1h 47m
Affected: Reading
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Sep 28, 2024, 08:55 PM UTC

    We are investigating issues with connectivity to our sites from the Asia region.

  2. identified Sep 28, 2024, 08:58 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  3. monitoring Sep 28, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

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

  4. resolved Sep 28, 2024, 10:43 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor August 22, 2024

Eventgate failure in codfw

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 22, 2024, 12:36 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 22, 2024, 12:47 PM UTC
Duration
10m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 22, 2024, 12:36 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue; in the mean time, events will not propagate properly, and some operations may fail.

  2. monitoring Aug 22, 2024, 12:45 PM UTC

    Eventgate has returned to normal operation, we are continuing to monitor the situation.

  3. resolved Aug 22, 2024, 12:47 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical August 14, 2024

Database issues

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 14, 2024, 09:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 15, 2024, 12:55 AM UTC
Duration
3h 55m
Affected: Editing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Aug 14, 2024, 09:00 PM UTC

    We're currently experiencing a recurrence of lag on our MariaDB S4 primary instance.

  2. monitoring Aug 14, 2024, 09:17 PM UTC

    We are monitoring the situation and continuing to investigate the root cause of brief recurring lag spikes.

  3. resolved Aug 15, 2024, 12:55 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. We're continuing to address the root cause to reduce future recurrences.

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Major July 18, 2024

Problems with our secondary datacenter

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 18, 2024, 11:56 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 18, 2024, 12:50 PM UTC
Duration
53m
Affected: Reading
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Jul 18, 2024, 11:56 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Jul 18, 2024, 12:02 PM UTC

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

  3. monitoring Jul 18, 2024, 12:49 PM UTC

    Everything is back to normal.

  4. resolved Jul 18, 2024, 12:50 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major June 24, 2024

Issues with multiple wikis

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 24, 2024, 08:12 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 24, 2024, 08:48 PM UTC
Duration
35m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jun 24, 2024, 08:12 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Jun 24, 2024, 08:28 PM UTC

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

  3. resolved Jun 24, 2024, 08:48 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice June 10, 2024

Issues with some wikis

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 10, 2024, 10:10 AM UTC
Resolved
Jun 10, 2024, 10:29 AM UTC
Duration
19m
Affected: ReadingEditing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. identified Jun 10, 2024, 10:10 AM UTC

    We are aware of issues with saving edits to some wikis, and we are working on a fix.

  2. monitoring Jun 10, 2024, 10:13 AM UTC

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

  3. resolved Jun 10, 2024, 10:29 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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