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Wikipedia is working normally
IsDown last checked Wikipedia status on at . We've received 0 user reports in the past 24 hours.
Monitoring since Jan 2023
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72 incidents caught
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2 components tracked in real-time
Wikipedia service health over the last 24 hours
This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for Wikipedia service health 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.
Wikipedia Outage Map
See where Wikipedia users are reporting performance issues or downtime. The map shows recent outages from around the world.
Wikipedia Outage Map
Recent Wikipedia outage reports
See what users are saying about Wikipedia issues that impacted them and how they are affected by the outage.
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Amit - 503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request..
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Daniel - App can't connect to server..
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Chris - 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..
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Barry - Cannot open it. Can open other websites.
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Jay - Not loading on either browser or mobile app.
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Joe - Wikipedia is not loading up any searches. 12/23/24 14:00 hours EST.
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Bob - No reaction when clicking on Wikipedia icon, nor when searching for it..
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L - loading slowly, links don't work, can't open sections on a page - instead the edit icon appears (but that does nothing too).
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Anonymous - Wikipedia has an internal server error..
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Alex - Editing function returning 503 error.
Downtime health for the last 90 days
In the last 90 days, Wikipedia had 3 incidents (1 major outage and 2 minor incidents) with a median duration of 51 minutes.
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Median Resolution
Latest Wikipedia outages detected by IsDown
Check out the latest outages detected by IsDown for Wikipedia. It will show official outages and also issues that we're started by a spike in crowdsource reports.
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We are currently investigating an increased amount of errors with some wikis.
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Dec 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM UTC
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about 3 hours |
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We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, and we are investigating.
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Dec 03, 2025 at 05:36 PM UTC
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about 1 hour |
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We are currently investigating this issue.
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Nov 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
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41 minutes |
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A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
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Oct 08, 2025 at 09:09 AM UTC
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19 minutes |
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We are currently investigating this issue.
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Oct 03, 2025 at 07:31 AM UTC
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16 minutes |
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We are aware of issues with accessing images on some wikis, and we are investigating.
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Oct 01, 2025 at 12:22 PM UTC
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44 minutes |
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We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, particularly enwiki, and we are investigating. ...
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Sep 19, 2025 at 05:08 PM UTC
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about 1 hour |
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We have noticed an increase in 500 errors from our internal and external APIs. We are investigati...
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Sep 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM UTC
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33 minutes |
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We are investigating an issue affecting reading and editing on all wikis
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Jul 02, 2025 at 02:00 PM UTC
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about 1 hour |
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We are aware of issues with accessing images on some wikis, and we are investigating.
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Jun 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM UTC
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43 minutes |
Components / Services / Regions current status
Check the current status of the 2 components, services, or regions being monitored for Wikipedia.
| Component | Status | Details |
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| Editing status | OK | View details |
| Reading status | OK | View details |
