OutageDB

Wikimedia outage history and status

Is Wikimedia down right now?

No
All Systems Operational Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
99.85%
uptime, 90 days
4
incidents, 90 days
1 h 47 min
median time to fix
Oct 22, 2026
last incident

Wikimedia components

Wikimedia outage history

Nov: 2 incidents, 0 min of major outage 2 Nov Dec: 2 incidents, 47 min of major outage 2 Dec Jan: 1 incidents, 0 min of major outage 1 Jan Feb: 3 incidents, 76 min of major outage 3 Feb Mar: 2 incidents, 0 min of major outage 2 Mar Apr: 1 incidents, 0 min of major outage 1 Apr May: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage May Jun: 0 incidents, 0 min of major outage Jun Jul: 2 incidents, 5 min of major outage 2 Jul Aug: 1 incidents, 92 min of major outage 1 Aug Sep: 1 incidents, 107 min of major outage 1 Sep Oct: 1 incidents, 0 min of major outage 1 Oct
Wikimedia incidents per month, last 12 months. Red: months with a major or critical outage. Shaded: before our complete history.
Started (UTC)IncidentImpactDuration
Oct 22, 2026, 15:56 UTC Maintenance No impact no update since Oct 22, 2026
Sep 23, 2026, 17:26 UTC Service disruption
Reading, Editing
 Critical 1 h 47 min
Aug 25, 2026, 18:24 UTC Wikipedia and other sites slow or unavailable
Reading, Editing
 Major 1 h 32 min
Jul 30, 2026, 10:08 UTC Connectivity issues from Russia
Reading
 Minor 24 h 01 min
Jul 1, 2026, 14:44 UTC Ongoing network outage, users might be unable to reach the wikis Major 5 min
Apr 2, 2026, 11:17 UTC Wikipedia and other wikis reporting errors with edits
Editing
 No impact 3 h 10 min
Mar 5, 2026, 15:36 UTC Wikis were in read only mode
Reading, Editing
 Minor 8 h 29 min
Mar 3, 2026, 10:09 UTC Edits to Wikipedia and other wikis are delayed
Editing
 Minor 15 min
Feb 26, 2026, 16:25 UTC Issues and degraded performance accessing Wikis
Reading, Editing
 Major 33 min
Feb 25, 2026, 16:40 UTC Issues and degraded performance accessing Wikis
Reading
 Major 43 min
Feb 20, 2026, 19:03 UTC Issues and slow down in Europe
Reading
 Minor 4 h 29 min
Jan 26, 2026, 00:19 UTC Issues accessing wikis for some users
Reading, Editing
 No impact <1 min
Dec 23, 2025, 10:03 UTC Increase of wiki errors.
Reading, Editing
 No impact 3 h 13 min
Dec 3, 2025, 17:36 UTC Trouble with some wikis
Reading, Editing
 Major 47 min
Nov 15, 2025, 00:00 UTC Trouble with images and thumbnails
Reading, Editing
 Minor 40 min
Nov 6, 2025, 11:10 UTC Trouble with some wikis No impact <1 min
Oct 8, 2025, 09:09 UTC Connectivity issues for EMEA users
Reading, Editing
 No impact 18 min
Oct 3, 2025, 07:31 UTC Availability issues with wikis
Reading, Editing
 No impact 16 min
Oct 1, 2025, 12:22 UTC Trouble with images and thumbnails
Reading
 No impact 41 min
Sep 19, 2025, 17:08 UTC Trouble with some wikis, editing unavailable on enwiki
Reading, Editing
 Major 1 h 25 min
Sep 11, 2025, 10:03 UTC API availability issues
Editing
 Major 32 min
Jul 2, 2025, 14:00 UTC Increased error rates on all wikis
Reading, Editing
 Major 1 h 12 min
Jun 23, 2025, 11:50 UTC Trouble with some images
Reading
 Major 26 min
Jun 2, 2025, 11:32 UTC Captcha-protected actions on all wikis are not working
Editing
 Major 45 min
Apr 30, 2025, 19:34 UTC gerrit.wikimedia.org (Code Review) down No impact 2 h 20 min

51 incidents in our archive since April 17, 2024.

When and where Wikimedia fails

By weekday

Most incidents start on Wed.

  • Mon8
  • Tue5
  • Wed16
  • Thu12
  • Fri6
  • Sat4
  • Sun0

Most affected, last 12 months

  • Reading11
  • Editing10

When Wikimedia went down with others

Scheduled maintenance

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FAQ

Is Wikimedia down right now?
At our last check Wikimedia's official status page reported: All Systems Operational. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
How often does Wikimedia go down?
Wikimedia reported 4 incidents in the last 90 days (2 major or critical), with 199 minutes of major outage: 99.85% uptime.
When was the last Wikimedia outage?
The latest reported incident started on Oct 22, 2026, 15:56 UTC: "Maintenance", and is not resolved yet.
How long do Wikimedia outages last?
Half of Wikimedia's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 1 h 47 min.

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