What is Wikipedia status right now?

Wikipedia is operational. Check Wikipedia service health and outages at the top of this page for real-time updates.

When was the last Wikipedia outage?

The last Wikipedia outage was on October 21, 2026: "Emergency measures"

How do I check if Wikipedia is down?

Use IsDown to monitor Wikipedia status and get alerts when Wikipedia is down. You can also check the official Wikipedia status page.

How do I get alerts when Wikipedia is down?

Create an IsDown account to monitor Wikipedia status. Get instant alerts via Slack, PagerDuty, or email when Wikipedia outages occur.

Is Wikipedia Down? Current Status and Outages

Q: Is Wikipedia down today?

Wikipedia had 2 outages in the last 24 hours. IsDown monitors Wikipedia status continuously for outages and service health issues.

Wikipedia status updated 3 minutes 4 seconds ago

Current Wikipedia status

Wikipedia is working normally

IsDown last checked Wikipedia status on October 22, 2026 at 05:03 AM EDT. We've received 108 user reports in the past 24 hours.

Monitoring since Jan 2023 · 88 incidents caught · 2 components tracked in real-time

Wikipedia service health over the last 24 hours

This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for Wikipedia service health over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem.

Outage Map

See where users report Wikipedia is down. The map shows recent Wikipedia outages from around the world.

Top locations, last 24h:

United States
United Kingdom

Wikipedia Outage Map

Recent Wikipedia outage reports

See what users report when Wikipedia is down and how Wikipedia outages affect them.

Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Jay - Searches are failing with an error that reads, "Request served via cp1101 cp1101, Varnish XID 770780462 Upstream caches: cp1101 int Error: 429, Please try again later (a607b0e) at Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:47:42 GMT".
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇨🇦 Canada

Request served via cp4042 cp4042, Varnish XID 243703737 Upstream caches: cp4042 int Error: 429, Please try again later (a607b0e) at Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:46:41 GMT.
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Trying to open an article on Wikipedia returns an error page saying "Please try again later (a607b0e)".
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Sophie - I Can't Access the Pages on Wikipedia!.
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

starfinch - Try again later error shows up when trying to access any Wikipedia page..
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Can’t login or even load any page.
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇲🇦 Morocco

nahh - when clicking on any wikipedia link that isnt the home page i believe, this message shows up: Error Please try again later (a607b0e) from the wikimedia foundation.
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Android app is returning code 429 when trying to load a page.
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Some Wikipedia pages and all Wiktionary pages down for me, UK..
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Only pulls up an error screen with Wikimedia asking to try again later.
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Wikipedia inaccessible/down.
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇪🇸 Spain

Josep - Error Please try again later (a607b0e).
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

An error message comes up whenever I want to access entries..
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇺🇸 United States of America

Puddin - Message from Wikipedia when I try to use the Wikipedia "search box": Wikimedia; Error; Please try again later (a607b0e).
Oct 21, 2026 (about 17 hours ago) 🇮🇹 Italy

Shows ERROR Please try again later (a607b0e).

Early detection is everything

User reports often detect issues before official status pages acknowledge them. Learn how crowdsourced monitoring combined with official status pages provides faster outage detection than relying on either approach alone.

Wikipedia Downtime Health — Last 90 Days

In the last 90 days, Wikipedia had 5 incidents (2 major outages and 3 minor incidents) with a median duration of 1 hour 35 minutes.

Total

Incidents

Critical

Major Outages

Warning

Minor Incidents

Duration

1 hour

Median Resolution

Recent Wikipedia outages detected

Full incident reports for recent Wikipedia outages, including timelines, affected components, and resolution details.

about 1 hour

Wikipedia service outage analysis

Oct 21, 2026 at 11:31 AM

Never acknowledged

10 minutes

Emergency measures

Oct 21, 2026 at 11:19 AM

about 2 hours

Service disruption

Sep 23, 2026 at 01:26 PM

about 2 hours

Wikipedia and other sites slow or unavailable

Aug 25, 2026 at 02:24 PM

1 day

Connectivity issues from Russia

Jul 30, 2026 at 06:08 AM

8 minutes

Ongoing network outage, users might be unable to reach the wikis

Jul 01, 2026 at 10:44 AM

Detected 4 minutes before

about 1 hour

Wikipedia experiencing widespread outage

Apr 17, 2026 at 04:40 AM

Never acknowledged

about 3 hours

Wikipedia and other wikis reporting errors with edits

Apr 02, 2026 at 07:17 AM

about 8 hours

Wikis were in read only mode

Mar 05, 2026 at 10:36 AM

17 minutes

Wikipedia and other wikis are read-only

Mar 03, 2026 at 05:09 AM

Title	IsDown detected At	Duration
Wikipedia service outage analysis Non-English Wikipedia pages experiencing outages; users facing Error 429 with 'Please try again l...	Oct 21, 2026 at 03:31 PM UTC Never acknowledged	about 1 hour
Emergency measures Much of MediaWiki site functionality is temporarily disabled while working on an emergency issue	Oct 21, 2026 at 03:19 PM UTC	10 minutes
Service disruption We are currently investigating this issue.	Sep 23, 2026 at 05:26 PM UTC	about 2 hours
Wikipedia and other sites slow or unavailable We are aware that many users are having trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, an...	Aug 25, 2026 at 06:24 PM UTC	about 2 hours
Connectivity issues from Russia There are reports of connectivity issues from Russia outside of our control. The issues mostly af...	Jul 30, 2026 at 10:08 AM UTC	1 day
Ongoing network outage, users might be unable to reach the wikis We are currently investigating this issue.	Jul 01, 2026 at 02:40 PM UTC IsDown detected 4 minutes before official update	8 minutes
Wikipedia experiencing widespread outage Users report inability to access Wikipedia due to server issues, 504 errors, and unresponsive web...	Apr 17, 2026 at 08:40 AM UTC Never acknowledged	about 1 hour
Wikipedia and other wikis reporting errors with edits We are currently investigating an issue which is causing a number of edits to Wiki's to fail. In...	Apr 02, 2026 at 11:17 AM UTC	about 3 hours
Wikis were in read only mode We are aware of issues with accessing some wikis, and we are investigating.	Mar 05, 2026 at 03:36 PM UTC	about 8 hours
Wikipedia and other wikis are read-only We have discovered an issue with our database servers and are working on a fix.	Mar 03, 2026 at 10:09 AM UTC	17 minutes

Wikipedia Scheduled Maintenances

Check upcoming Wikipedia maintenance windows. 1 scheduled maintenances may affect Wikipedia status.

Oct 28 2026

Wikis read-only: Datacenter switchover

Scheduled for October 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT · until 11:10 AM EDT

The SRE team will run a planned data center switchover, moving all wikis from our data center in Virginia to the data center in Teaxs. This is an important periodic test of our tools and procedures, to ensure the wikis will continue to be availabl...

Wikipedia Components Status

Check if any Wikipedia component is down. View the current status of 2 services and regions.

Component	Status	Details
Editing status	OK	View details
Reading status	OK	View details

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Wikipedia down today?

Wikipedia isn't down. You can check Wikipedia status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Wikipedia official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 2 outages reported.

What is the current Wikipedia status?

Wikipedia is currently operational. You can check Wikipedia status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.

Is there a Wikipedia outage now?

No, there is no ongoing official outage. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

Is Wikipedia down today or just slow?

Currently there's no report of Wikipedia being slow. Check on the top of the page if there are any reported problems by other users.

How are Wikipedia outages detected?

IsDown monitors the Wikipedia official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.

Is Wikipedia having an outage right now?

Wikipedia last outage was on October 21, 2026 with the title "Emergency measures"

How often does Wikipedia go down?

IsDown has tracked 82 Wikipedia incidents since January 2023. When Wikipedia goes down, incidents typically resolve within 415 minutes.

Is Wikipedia down for everyone or just me?

Check the Wikipedia status at the top of this page. IsDown combines official status page data with user reports to show whether Wikipedia is down for everyone or if the issue is on your end.

What Wikipedia components does IsDown monitor?

IsDown monitors 2 Wikipedia components in real-time, tracking the official status page for outages, degraded performance, and scheduled maintenance.

How to check if Wikipedia is down?

Subscribe (if possible) to updates on the official status page.
IsDown continuously monitors the Wikipedia status page and multiple sources to provide up-to-date information. Check back with us for the latest Wikipedia uptime status.

Why use IsDown to monitor Wikipedia instead of the official status page?

Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor Wikipedia and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.

How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring Wikipedia?

IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if Wikipedia is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about Wikipedia's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.