Last checked from Wikimedia official status page 3 min. 38 sec. ago
Wikimedia Status
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Crowdsourced encyclopedia and free knowledge platform.
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StatusGator last checked the status of Wikimedia on and the service was operational. There have been no user-submitted reports of outages in the past 24 hours. The last officially acknowledged outage was on .
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Wikimedia service health
This chart represents Wikimedia service health over the last 24 hours, with data points collected every 15 minutes based on issue reports, page visits, and signal strength. Sign up for free to see more Wikimedia status data.
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Service up
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Possible outage
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Likely outage
Top reported issues
View and upvote the most commonly reported Wikimedia issues to help us better indicate the service status.
- Connectivity issue
- Error message
- Server not responding
- Sign in problem
- Service down
- Slow performance
- Unable to download
- App not loading
- Other
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Recent outage reports
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8 outage reports in the last 24 hours
British Columbia, Canada
Other
21 days ago
21 days ago
Scotland, United Kingdom
"Images are broken across Wikipedia and will not load. Wikimedia is down."
about 2 months ago
about 2 months ago
California, United States
"Pictures/images/videos not rendering properly."
2 months ago
2 months ago
England, United Kingdom
"Haven't been able to access any Wikimedia site from the UK for the past 4.5 hrs, although www.wikimediastatus.net says all systems are operational."
2 months ago
2 months ago
South Australia, Australia
Connectivity issue
9 months ago
9 months ago
Maharashtra, India
Service down
9 months ago
9 months ago
New York, United States
Error message
9 months ago
9 months ago
Utah, United States
Slow performance
about 1 year ago
about 1 year ago
Wikimedia outage map
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Recent Wikimedia outages and issues
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| Incident Name | Duration | Started | Severity |
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Ongoing network outage, users might be unable to reach the wikis
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6m |
Warn
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Wikipedia and other wikis reporting errors with edits
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3h 5m |
Warn
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Maintenance
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10m |
Maint
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Wikis were in read only mode
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5h 30m |
Warn
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Wikis in read only mode
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1h |
Warn
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Incident name
Ongoing network outage, users might be unable to reach the wikis
Duration
6m
Start
Severity
Warn
Incident name
Wikipedia and other wikis reporting errors with edits
Duration
3h 5m
Start
Severity
Warn
Incident name
Maintenance
Duration
10m
Start
Severity
Maint
Incident name
Wikis were in read only mode
Duration
5h 30m
Start
Severity
Warn
Incident name
Wikis in read only mode
Duration
1h
Start
Severity
Warn
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Wikimedia components
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If the status shows "Up" but you're still experiencing issues, you can
such as connectivity issues, outages, or slow performance. These
issues are commonly reported when Wikimedia is down or
facing partial disruptions.
| Component name | Status |
|---|---|
| Wikimedia Editing |
Up
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| Wikimedia Reading |
Up
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About our Wikimedia status page integration
Wikimedia (Crowdsourced encyclopedia and free knowledge platform) is a a Hosting solution that StatusGator has been monitoring since January 2023. Over the past over 3 years, we have collected data on on more than 129 outages that affected Wikimedia users. When Wikimedia publishes downtime on their status page, they do so across 2 components using 4 different statuses: up, warn, down, and maintenance which we use to provide granular uptime metrics and notifications.
If you're wondering, "Is Wikimedia down?", or need to know its current status, we've got you covered. Our platform tracks every reported outage, performance issue, and maintenance window to ensure you're informed. Whether Wikimedia is experiencing a problem now or has recently resolved one, our detailed history keeps you updated.
Many StatusGator users monitor Wikimedia to get notified when it's down, is under maintenance, or has an outage. We've sent more than 100 notifications to our users about Wikimedia incidents, providing transparency and peace of mind. You can get alerts by signing up for a free StatusGator account.
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Early Warning Signals
If we detect a potential Wikimedia outage or other issue before it was reported on the official status page we will send an Early Warning Signal notification to StatusGator subscribers. We can often detect issues before they are officially acknowledged by the provider, giving you a head start on resolving any potential problems.
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Down Notifications
If Wikimedia is having system outages or experiencing other critical issues, red down notifications appear on the status page. In most cases, it means that core functions are not working properly, or there is some other serious customer-impacting event underway.
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Warning Notifications
Warn notifications are used when Wikimedia is undergoing a non-critical issue like minor service issues, performance degradation, non-core bugs, capacity issues, or problems affecting a small number of users.
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Maintenance Notifications
Wikimedia posts separate notifications for planned maintenance work. StatusGator will notify subscribers when Wikimedia enters a pre-planned maintenance window, keeping you up to date.
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Status Messages
When Wikimedia posts issues on their status page, we collect the main headline message and include that brief information or overview in notifications to StatusGator subscribers.
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Status Details
When Wikimedia has outages or other service-impacting events on their status page, we pull down the detailed informational updates and include them in notifications. These messages often include the current details about how the problem is being mitigated, or when the next update will occur.
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Component Status Filtering
Because Wikimedia has several components, each with their individual statuses, StatusGator can differentiate the status of each component in our notifications to you whenever a particular component is down. This means, you can filter your status page notifications based on the services, regions, or components you utilize. This is an essential feature for complex services with many components or services spread out across many regions.
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