Outage in Wikipedia
Emergency measures
Resolved MinorIncident Report
Summary AI Generated
Wikipedia experienced a brief 10-minute outage where much of MediaWiki's site functionality was temporarily disabled due to an emergency issue. Users were unable to access most pages, instead receiving a "Wikimedia Error" message prompting them to try again later. Reading and editing capabilities were both affected before the issue was resolved.
Much of MediaWiki site functionality is temporarily disabled while working on an emergency issue
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about 18 hours ago - at 10/21/2026 03:19PM
Much of MediaWiki site functionality is temporarily disabled while working on an emergency issue
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