Outage in Wikipedia

Trouble with some wikis, editing unavailable on enwiki

Resolved Major
September 19, 2025 - Started about 2 months ago - Lasted about 1 hour
Official incident page

Incident Report

We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, particularly enwiki, and we are investigating. At this time, edits to enwiki are unavailable, and read operations across all wikis may be degraded.
Components affected
Wikipedia Editing Wikipedia Reading
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED about 2 months ago - at 09/19/2025 06:32PM

This incident has resolved and we are investigating follow-up actions to prevent its recurrence in the future.

MONITORING about 2 months ago - at 09/19/2025 05:51PM

We are continuing to monitor and investigate potential triggers.

IDENTIFIED about 2 months ago - at 09/19/2025 05:25PM

We have identified an issue impacting the enwiki database primary and continue to investigate. Edits should once again be available for enwiki, and read operations across wikis should no longer be degraded.

INVESTIGATING about 2 months ago - at 09/19/2025 05:08PM

We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, particularly enwiki, and we are investigating. At this time, edits to enwiki are unavailable, and read operations across all wikis may be degraded.

Latest Wikipedia outages

Availability issues with wikis - about 1 month ago
API availability issues - about 2 months ago

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