Wikimedia outage on 28 October 2026
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“Wikimedia API is unavailable”
On 28 October, the Wikimedia API was unavailable in a critical outage that lasted 1 h 27 min, from 04:57 to 06:24 UTC. The status page showed Reading and Editing in critical outage from 04:56 to 06:13. At 06:13 it reported that a fix had been implemented, and it continued monitoring until the incident ended. Claude also had a minor issue at the same time, with elevated errors affecting its Gmail connector from 04:00.
Wikimedia’s own incident page ↗- When
- 04:57–06:24 UTC
- How long
- 1 h 27 min
- Incident open on its page
- 04:55–open UTC
- Components affected
- 2
- Wikimedia, 30 days before
- No other outages
What broke when
From Wikimedia’s own status page: when it moved each component into trouble, and back.
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 90 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Timeline
Times in UTC
- Investigating
- Reading: major outage
- Editing: major outage
- Reading: degraded performance
- Editing: degraded performance
- Fix in place, monitoring
- Reading: back to normal
- Editing: back to normal
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Wikimedia’s official status page at www.wikimediastatus.net every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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