Wikipedia outage, 21 October 2026
Emergency measures
- Started
- Status
- Ongoing: Investigating
- Impact
- Not stated
- Affected
- Reading, Editing
Is this still happening?
Yes. Wikipedia still lists it as investigating; last update 21 Oct 2026, 15:19 UTC.
Right now: Wikipedia reports all systems operational. (as of 26 Oct, 03:45 UTC) Live Wikipedia status
Last update from Wikipedia
Much of MediaWiki site functionality is temporarily disabled while working on an emergency issue
Read the full incident on the official Wikipedia status page
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