Is Wikipedia Down? Check the current Wikipedia status

Wikipedia is operational

Updated a few minutes ago

Wikipedia not working for you?

Monitoring Wikipedia since January 2023. Learn more

Monitoring 2 Wikipedia services and regions

2 incidents in 2025

Current Wikipedia official ongoing incidents

No incidents reported in Wikipedia's status page

IsDown pulls data from Wikipedia's status page every few minutes and collects user-reported issues. Refresh the page to see if there are any updates.

Wikipedia issues reported by users in the last 24 hours

This chart displays the number of user-reported issues over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. We only consider an issue widespread if there are multiple reports within a short timeframe.

Latest user comments about Wikipedia problems

  • C

    Chris

    12 days ago

    I get the message "The site isn't redirecting properly." ALL OF THE OTHER OUTAGE-DETECTING SERVICES are reporting that there have been a great many reports in the past hour or so that Wikipedia is not reachable.

  • B

    Barry

    about 2 months ago

    Cannot open it. Can open other websites

  • J

    Jay

    3 months ago

    Not loading on either browser or mobile app

  • J

    Joe

    3 months ago

    Wikipedia is not loading up any searches. 12/23/24 14:00 hours EST

  • B

    Bob

    3 months ago

    No reaction when clicking on Wikipedia icon, nor when searching for it.

  • L

    L

    3 months ago

    loading slowly, links don't work, can't open sections on a page - instead the edit icon appears (but that does nothing too)

  • A

    Anonymous

    5 months ago

    Wikipedia has an internal server error.

  • A

    Alex

    7 months ago

    Editing function returning 503 error

  • J

    Jodami

    over 1 year ago

    503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request.

Wikipedia outage history

IsDown has tracked 53 incidents since started monitoring Wikipedia status in January 2023.

Wikipedia outages in the last 30 days

Number of Incidents

2 issues

Last incident

5 days ago

Having problems with Wikipedia? What can you do?

  1. First, stay calm.

    • We know it's stressful when Wikipedia is down, but running around is not going to fix it.
    • Remember that it's normal for services to go down sometimes. It can be for a number of reasons, from maintenance to unexpected issues.

  2. Make a quick evaluation of the impact

    • Try to evaluate the impact of the outage on your business. Is it impacting a majority of your users or just a few?
    • Did Wikipedia already acknowledge the issue? And published a status update? (You can find it in the top of the page or in Wikipedia status page)
    • If not, understand if other users are also experiencing issues. You can also check this information on the top of the page.

  3. Communicate with your team and users quickly

    • If Wikipedia is having problems and impacting your business, it's important to keep your team and users informed.
    • Share this page with your team, so you can start incident response procedures. No need for everyone to go around searching for information. Create a post or a specific channel in your internal communication tools (Slack, Teams, Google Chat, etc.) so you can aggregate all the information in one place.
    • If you have a status page, create a status update to inform your users about the issue. This way they know what's going on and you can avoid a flow of support requests overburding your team.

  4. Understand the root cause

    • After the first communication, let's move on to the next step. Do a more thorough investigation to understand the root cause of the issue and impact.
    • Reach out to the service provider to understand if they are aware of the issue and if they are already working on it. You can reach them in their support channels, or their social media channels if they have any.

  5. Is there any mitigation for the issue?

    • Understand if there are workarounds or mitigations for the issue. Can you use a different provider? Is the switch easy to do? Talk with your team to understand the best course of action.
    • Need to wait on the service provider to fix the issue? Understand if there is a timeline for the fix. Adapt your communication with your team and users to the situation. It's very important to keep everyone informed.

  6. Service has recovered?

    • Continue to monitor the situation. A lot of times, the service can see a brief recovery and declare the issue as resolved, but it can come back. Keep monitor for some time to make sure it's really resolved.

  7. Post-incident analysis

    • Once the issue is resolved, it's important to do a post-incident analysis. Understand what went wrong and if it's possible or needed to do something to prevent it from happening again.
    • Sometimes if it's a critical dependency, you might need to have a backup plan in place to avoid a similar issue.

  8. Prepare for the next incident, because it will happen again

    • Start monitoring your dependencies. Sign up to IsDown and aggregate all your dependencies status in one place.
    • Nowadays, it's very common to have a lot of dependencies, and keeping an eye on them is not an easy task. IsDown can help you with that, by monitoring them for you and alerting you if they are having issues, and create status pages to communicate with your team and users.

Check Wikipedia components, services, or regions current status in real-time

Editing
OK
Reading
OK

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Wikipedia down today?

Wikipedia isn't down. You can check Wikipedia status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Wikipedia official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.

What is the current Wikipedia status?

Wikipedia is currently operational. You can check Wikipedia status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.

Is there a Wikipedia outage now?

No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

Is Wikipedia slow today?

Currently there's no report of Wikipedia being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

How are Wikipedia outages detected?

IsDown monitors the Wikipedia official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.

When was the last Wikipedia outage?

Wikipedia last outage was on March 07, 2025 with the title "Wikimedia Gerrit git repository is unavailable"

Wikipedia not working for you? How do I know if Wikipedia is down?
How IsDown compares to DownDetector?

IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if a service is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information. The integration allows us to provide more details about the outage, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.