Outage in Wikipedia

API availability issues

Resolved Major

September 11, 2025 - Started 4 months 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 4 months ago - at 09/11/2025 10:36AM

All APIs are operational.

MONITORING 4 months ago - at 09/11/2025 10:15AM

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

INVESTIGATING 4 months ago - at 09/11/2025 10:15AM

We are continuing to investigate this issue.

INVESTIGATING 4 months 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

Increase of wiki errors. - 27 days ago

Trouble with some wikis - about 2 months ago

Trouble with images and thumbnails - 2 months ago

Connectivity issues for EMEA users - 3 months ago

Availability issues with wikis - 4 months ago

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