Wikipedia is down for thousands of the users on Wednesday, according to Down Detector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users’ reports. More than 3000 users in the United States have reported issues with Wikipedia.
By 11:35am EDT on Wednesday, 3195 users reported problems on Down Detector about accessing content on Wikipedia. 92% of the users say that they are facing issues with the website of Wikipedia. Around 7% reported problems with the app. Down Detector shows that the outage started around 10:50am EDT. By 11:05am EDT, the number of reports had reached 1173. 30 minutes later, over 2000 users reported issues with Wikipedia. As the graph below shows, around 11:35am EDT, more than 3000 users were reporting issues with Wikipedia on Down Detector. The outage seems to have lasted for around 1 hour and 20 minutes. By 12:15pm EDT, the number of reports on Down Detector had fallen to around 60, indicating that the outage had likely subsided. Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites on the whole of the internet with 4.4 billion unique global visits each month.
As of this writing, the Wikimedia Foundation has not issued a response on what caused the reported outage Wednesday afternoon.
Some users on social media said that they were getting an error from Wikipedia Foundation with the code, a607b0e.
