Problems logging on to Wikipedia on 6th September

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Has anyone been unable to access that site in the last 24 hours?

 

[Ash Bridge]

I've just had exactly the same problem Paul whilst using my iPad.

 

[sprunt]

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com is a useful site for checking this kind of thing, and currently confirms that the site is down.

 

[507021]

Wikipedia isn't working for me either.

 

[Bungle965]

@ainsworth74 I believe you were saying earlier you were having issues?
Sam

 

[Aictos]

No problems here...

 

[causton]

"Is en.wikipedia.org down right now?
It's just you. en.wikipedia.org is up."

And so it is! Yes, back up for me

 

[EM2]

Working fine for me.

 

[507021]

It's working again for me.

 

[ainsworth74]

@ainsworth74 I believe you were saying earlier you were having issues?
Sam

Hello yes. Yes I was.

Came back about twenty minutes or so ago I'd say.

 

[507021]

It's gone back down at my end.

 

[AndrewE]

and here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead_Park ... but back again now, a minute later!

 

[RichT54]

The Independent is reporting that it was a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.

Wikipedia suffered a global outage on Friday night after cyber attackers brought down the site with a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack.

Users across Europe were unable to access the site for several hours.

People in parts of the US and the Middle East were also affected.

The site appeared to be online in the UK by Saturday afternoon.

“Wikipedia was hit with a malicious attack that has taken it offline in several countries for intermittent periods,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson said.

 

[Howardh]

Didn't have Yahoo Mail for most of yesterday. No idea why it was down though.