Wikipedia outage, 20 February 2026

Issues and slow down in Europe

Started
Resolved
20 Feb 2026, 23:33 UTC (after 4 h 29 min)
Impact
Minor
Affected
Reading

Last update from Wikipedia

This incident has been resolved.

20 Feb 2026, 23:33 UTC

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Other Wikipedia incidents

  1. Service disruption

  2. Wikipedia and other sites slow or unavailable

  3. Connectivity issues from Russia

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

  5. Wikipedia and other wikis reporting errors with edits

  6. Wikis were in read only mode

  7. Edits to Wikipedia and other wikis are delayed

  8. Issues and degraded performance accessing Wikis

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