Is Wikipedia Down?

No — Wikipedia is up

Wikipedia's status page: Operational · no open incidents
FlareWarden checks: Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 527 ms

Right now

The verdict is the worse of these two. How we decide

Wikipedia's status page

wikimediastatus.net · read 2 minutes ago · checked every 3 minutes

Operational

Wikipedia's components, as its status page reports them
Component	Status
Reading	Operational
Editing	Operational

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FlareWarden checks

wikipedia.org from 8 regions · when you open this page (at most every 30 minutes), otherwise every 6 hours

Reachable

Regions up: 8 of 8
Response: 527 ms
Checked: 2 hours ago

By region

Ashburn reachable, 124 ms
Dallas reachable, 325 ms
Frankfurt reachable, 587 ms
Johannesburg reachable, 1704 ms
Newark reachable, 202 ms
Paris reachable, 409 ms
Stockholm reachable, 493 ms
São Paulo reachable, 378 ms

Timing by region

Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
Region	DNS	TCP	TLS	TTFB
Ashburn	109 ms	1 ms	6 ms	120 ms
Dallas	308 ms	1 ms	6 ms	320 ms
Frankfurt	456 ms	20 ms	25 ms	530 ms
Johannesburg	715 ms	160 ms	164 ms	1258 ms
Newark	140 ms	10 ms	14 ms	179 ms
Paris	265 ms	22 ms	28 ms	347 ms
Stockholm	359 ms	20 ms	28 ms	436 ms
São Paulo	353 ms	2 ms	11 ms	372 ms

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History

Incidents Wikipedia reported

Since Oct 22, 15 days · from wikimediastatus.net

Incidents: 2
Major or critical: 0
Median to resolve: 2d 13h

Wikimedia API is unavailable
Unrated · Oct 28
lasted 1h 45m
Maintenance
Unrated · Oct 22
lasted 5d 1h

Wikipedia website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · wikipedia.org

Last 7 days: 100%
Last 30 days: 100%
Last 90 days: 100%
Avg response, 30 days: 583ms

Last 30 days

91-day clean streak

Oct 7 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of wikipedia.org from multiple regions every 6 hours. Wikipedia's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 90 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

What Wikipedia does

Wikipedia is the Wikimedia Foundation's encyclopedia, edited by volunteers and read by hundreds of millions of people monthly. It is also a dependency for search results, voice assistants and countless applications that pull summaries from its API, so an outage reaches far beyond people who intended to visit the site.

What an outage looks like

Articles fail to load or return error pages, and search from within the site stops returning results. Editing fails while reading continues, since Wikimedia reports the two separately. Images may not render while article text does, because media is served from a different path. Applications and assistants that quote Wikipedia return blanks or fall back to other sources.

What to do about it

Check wikimediastatus.net, the Wikimedia Foundation's own page, which reports Reading and Editing as separate components alongside metrics for request volume, error responses and response time. Reading is usually restored before editing. If you are mid-edit, copy your work out of the browser before reloading, since an unsaved edit is not held anywhere.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Wikipedia is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Wikipedia outage FAQ

Is Wikipedia down or is it blocked on my network?

Wikipedia is blocked or filtered in some countries and on some corporate and school networks, which looks identical to an outage from the affected device. Check wikimediastatus.net, which reports globally, and try a different network. If the status page shows Reading as operational, the block is local rather than a Wikimedia incident.

Will I lose an edit I was writing during an outage?

Very likely, if you reload or navigate away. An unsaved edit lives only in your browser and Wikimedia holds nothing until you publish. Copy the text into a local file before touching the page. For long edits this is worth doing habitually rather than only during incidents, since browser crashes cost the same work.

Why can I read Wikipedia but not edit it?

Wikimedia reports Reading and Editing as separate components, and they genuinely fail independently. Serving an article can be handled from cache, while an edit must reach the databases behind it. During a partial incident, or during scheduled maintenance, editing is often disabled deliberately while reading continues uninterrupted for everyone.

Does a Wikipedia outage affect other Wikimedia projects?

Often yes, since Wiktionary, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and the rest share infrastructure. The status page covers Wikimedia's services rather than Wikipedia alone. Wikidata mattering here is easy to overlook: many external applications read from it, so an incident propagates into tools that never mention Wikipedia by name.

Why did my app stop showing Wikipedia summaries?

A great many applications, assistants and search features pull from the Wikimedia API, so an incident silently removes content from products that never say where it came from. The application usually shows a blank panel rather than an error. Nothing needs fixing on your side; it returns when Wikimedia does.

How we measure this

We request Wikipedia's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them. When you open this page and our last check is more than 30 minutes old, we check again on the spot; those checks update the verdict, never the availability figures.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. Our checks only change their verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where Wikipedia publishes an official status feed we read it too, and the verdict is the worse of what it reports and what our checks see: a major outage of Wikipedia itself is Down, trouble with one part of it is Degraded, problems at a few of a provider's many locations change nothing, and a security notice that marks nothing down is shown but changes nothing either. We check the feed every 3 minutes and read it again within minutes of any change to its incidents or components; a reading counts for 45 minutes after the last check that found nothing changed. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

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