Is Wikipedia down?
Live status for Wikipedia (https://wikipedia.org)
About Wikipedia outages
Wikipedia is the free encyclopedia run by the Wikimedia Foundation on donation-funded infrastructure. It is remarkably reliable for its scale; brief read-only periods during maintenance are more common than true outages.
Wikipedia publishes official incident updates at its status page — worth checking alongside our live test above.
Wikipedia FAQ
Why is Wikipedia read-only right now?
Wikimedia occasionally switches Wikipedia to read-only mode during database maintenance or data-center failovers — articles stay readable but editing pauses. These windows are planned, brief, and announced on the Wikimedia status page.
Wikipedia won’t load — is it blocked on my network?
Some schools, offices, and countries filter Wikipedia, which looks like an outage from inside the network. If our external check reaches wikipedia.org while you cannot, and other sites work, a local content filter or DNS block is the probable cause.
Is Wikipedia down for everyone or just me?
We test Wikipedia (https://wikipedia.org) live from our own servers. If our check succeeds but you still can't connect, the outage is probably local to you — try another network or device, clear your cache, or check Wikipedia's official status channels.