# Wikimedia outage on 28 October 2026

> 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.

- Service: [Wikimedia](https://stackpulse.app/services/wikimedia.md)
- Severity: critical
- Title on the status page: Wikimedia API is unavailable
- Started: 2026-10-28 04:57 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-28 06:24 UTC
- Lasted: 1 h 27 min
- Incident open on the status page: 04:55–open UTC
- The status page's incident: https://stspg.io/d9gg8wz3dczc
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/wikimedia/outages/2026-10-28-0457

## What broke when (UTC)

| Component | Status | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | major outage | 2026-10-28 04:56 | 2026-10-28 04:58 |
| Reading | degraded performance | 2026-10-28 04:58 | 2026-10-28 06:13 |
| Editing | major outage | 2026-10-28 04:56 | 2026-10-28 04:58 |
| Editing | degraded performance | 2026-10-28 04:58 | 2026-10-28 06:13 |

## At the same time

- [Claude](https://stackpulse.app/services/claude.md): issue from 2026-10-28 04:00 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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