Use cases
Software Products E-commerce MSPs Schools Development & Marketing DevOps Agencies Help Desk
Company
Internet Status Blog Pricing Log in Get started free

Outage in Wikipedia

Wikipedia and other sites slow or unavailable

Resolved Major
August 25, 2026 - Started about 10 hours ago - Lasted about 2 hours
Official incident page

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites experienced a major outage lasting approximately 1.6 hours, leaving users unable to access or edit content. The incident affected both reading and editing functionality across Wikimedia platforms. A fix was implemented and the incident was fully resolved.

We are aware that many users are having trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, and we are investigating.
Components affected
Wikipedia Editing Wikipedia Reading
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED about 9 hours ago - at 08/25/2026 07:56PM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING about 9 hours ago - at 08/25/2026 07:33PM

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

INVESTIGATING about 10 hours ago - at 08/25/2026 06:24PM

We are aware that many users are having trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, and we are investigating.

The Status Page Aggregator with Early Outage Detection

With IsDown, you can monitor all your critical services' official status pages from one centralized dashboard and receive instant alerts the moment an outage is detected. Say goodbye to constantly checking multiple sites for updates and stay ahead of outages with IsDown.

Start free trial

No credit card required · Cancel anytime · 6320 services available

Integrations with Slack Microsoft Teams Google Chat Datadog PagerDuty Zapier Discord Webhook