Wikimedia Outage History

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Pingoru has recorded 51 incidents for Wikimedia: 16 in the last 12 months and 4 in the last 90 days.

Source: wikimediastatus.net

51incidents recorded
16last 12 months
4last 90 days
3 hourstypical duration
Incidents per month
012AprMayJunJulAugSepOct1
Share of hours with an open incident, any severity
0%50%100%AprMayJunJulAugSepOct12%
Pingoru began tracking Wikimedia in April 2026, so earlier months are not shown. Hover a bar for its value.
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MonthIncidentsHours with an open incident
April 202613 of 720 (0%)
May 202600 of 744 (0%)
June 202600 of 720 (0%)
July 2026224 of 744 (3%)
August 202612 of 744 (0%)
September 202612 of 720 (0%)
October 2026171 of 591 (12%)

Incidents, newest first

Minor March 13, 2025 Editing issues 2h 53m Reading, Editing

Started Mar 13, 2025, 11:36 AM UTC· resolved Mar 13, 2025, 02:29 PM UTC

  1. investigating Mar 13, 2025, 11:36 AM UTC

    We are aware that users are having trouble editing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis, and we are investigating.

  2. monitoring Mar 13, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. monitoring Mar 13, 2025, 01:37 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. resolved Mar 13, 2025, 02:29 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor March 7, 2025 Wikimedia Gerrit git repository is unavailable 27m Reading, Editing

Started Mar 07, 2025, 02:42 PM UTC· resolved Mar 07, 2025, 03:09 PM UTC

  1. investigating Mar 07, 2025, 02:42 PM UTC

    We are aware that developers are having trouble updating and checking out code from gerrit.wikimedia.org and our engineers are working on it.

  2. investigating Mar 07, 2025, 02:42 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. identified Mar 07, 2025, 02:45 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  4. monitoring Mar 07, 2025, 02:55 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  5. resolved Mar 07, 2025, 03:09 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major February 28, 2025 www.wikipedia.org portal unavailable on some locations 1h 20m Reading

Started Feb 28, 2025, 09:36 AM UTC· resolved Feb 28, 2025, 10:57 AM UTC

  1. investigating Feb 28, 2025, 09:36 AM UTC

    We are aware that many users are having trouble accessing the portal www.wikipedia.org for excessive redirects, and we are investigating.

  2. identified Feb 28, 2025, 09:57 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring Feb 28, 2025, 10:36 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Feb 28, 2025, 10:57 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice February 3, 2025 Unscheduled maintenance to prevent database errors 14m

Started Feb 03, 2025, 01:00 PM UTC· resolved Feb 03, 2025, 01:14 PM UTC

  1. resolved Feb 03, 2025, 01:33 PM UTC

    For some minutes between 13:07 to 13:14 UTC, wikis in the s3 section ( https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s3.dblist ) were in read only mode (reads could happen, but edits were not allowed) due to unscheduled maintenance in order to fix ongoing database errors. The maintenance is over and the issue should be now fixed. More info at: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385457

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Minor December 23, 2024 Occasional errors with Wikimedia commons media access 1h 29m Editing

Started Dec 23, 2024, 08:08 PM UTC· resolved Dec 23, 2024, 09:38 PM UTC

  1. investigating Dec 23, 2024, 08:08 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Dec 23, 2024, 08:44 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Dec 23, 2024, 09:38 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major December 5, 2024 Errors for logged in and some logged-out users 17m Reading, Editing

Started Dec 05, 2024, 05:02 AM UTC· resolved Dec 05, 2024, 05:19 AM UTC

  1. monitoring Dec 05, 2024, 05:02 AM UTC

    A primary database server for cached data experienced an issue serving requests. We have corrected the issue and services are recovering.

  2. resolved Dec 05, 2024, 05:19 AM UTC

    The remediation was successful.

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