Outage in Wikipedia
Service disruption
Resolved MajorIncident Report
Summary AI Generated
Wikipedia experienced a major service disruption lasting approximately 1.9 hours on September 23, 2026, caused by a power failure that took down reading and editing functionality across Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. Users were unable to access content or log into their accounts via mobile or browser. Services were restored after operations were migrated to a different data center, with full recovery confirmed by 19:13 UTC.
We are currently investigating this issue.
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED
1 day ago - at 09/23/2026 07:13PM
Services are back up. We are continuing to monitor.
MONITORING
1 day ago - at 09/23/2026 06:48PM
Services are in the process of coming up. We will update this page when resolved
MONITORING
1 day ago - at 09/23/2026 05:42PM
We are aware that many users had trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. We experienced a power failure and have moved services over to a different data center. Services should be restoring.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 09/23/2026 05:26PM
We are currently investigating this issue.
INVESTIGATING
1 day ago - at 09/23/2026 05:26PM
We are currently investigating this issue.
Latest Wikipedia outages
Wikipedia and other sites slow or unavailable - about 1 month ago
Connectivity issues from Russia - about 2 months ago
Wikipedia and other wikis reporting errors with edits - 6 months ago
Wikis were in read only mode - 7 months ago
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