Wikipedia outage, 5 March 2026
Wikis were in read only mode
- Started
- Resolved
- 6 Mar 2026, 00:05 UTC (after 8 h 28 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- Reading, Editing
Last update from Wikipedia
Wikis have been read-write for several hours, and we have now restored most user scripting capabilities.
Read the full incident on the official Wikipedia status page
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