Overview
- User reports on Downdetector began rising around 10:50 a.m. EDT on Wednesday and peaked at about 3,195 U.S. reports by 11:35 a.m.
- By roughly 12:15 p.m. EDT the volume of reports had fallen to near normal, implying the interruption lasted about 1 hour and 20 minutes.
- Most complaints (about 92%) concerned the website and roughly 7% concerned the app, and many users posted an error code labeled "a607b0e."
- News sites referenced an entry on the Wikimedia status page saying "emergency maintenance," but that link and other suggested causes were not confirmed by an official Wikimedia Foundation statement.
- Short outages to a site with billions of monthly visits can disrupt research, schoolwork and newsroom reporting, so authoritative updates on cause and fixes should come from the Wikimedia status page or a foundation statement.