Outage in Wikipedia

API availability issues

Resolved Major

September 11, 2025 - Started about 1 month ago - Lasted 33 minutes
Official incident page

Incident Report

We have noticed an increase in 500 errors from our internal and external APIs. We are investigating the cause

Components affected

Wikipedia Editing

Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )

RESOLVED about 1 month ago - at 09/11/2025 10:36AM

All APIs are operational.

MONITORING about 1 month ago - at 09/11/2025 10:15AM

A hardware failure has been identified and mitigated, we are monitoring the situation.

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 09/11/2025 10:15AM

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

INVESTIGATING about 1 month ago - at 09/11/2025 10:03AM

We have noticed an increase in 500 errors from our internal and external APIs. We are investigating the cause

Latest Wikipedia outages

Connectivity issues for EMEA users - 17 days ago

Availability issues with wikis - 22 days ago

Trouble with images and thumbnails - 24 days ago

Trouble with some wikis, editing unavailable on enwiki - about 1 month ago

Increased error rates on all wikis - 4 months ago

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