Outage report
Wikipedia outage on 28 Oct 2026
Wikipedia's status page reported an outage on 28 Oct 2026 from 04:57 UTC to 06:13 UTC (1 h 16 min), while wikipedia.org kept answering our checks. The status page called it “Wikimedia API is unavailable”.
- Started
- 28 Oct 2026, 04:57 UTC
- Ended
- 28 Oct 2026, 06:13 UTC
- Duration
- 1.3 h
- Seen by
- Wikipedia’s status page
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//_01 Timeline
What happened, minute by minute
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Wikipedia's status page reported: Wikimedia API is unavailable
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Recovered: wikimediastatus.net reports it's working again
//_02 Measurements
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Response time
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No visitor reported a problem with Wikipedia around this outage.
Wikipedia’s own account of incidents is on its status page: www.wikimediastatus.net
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