Is Wikipedia down or blocked? wikipedia.org status by country
Latest availability of wikipedia.org from about 90 countries: where it opens, where it is blocked and why.
Our latest check of wikipedia.org ran on 14 November 2026, 21:00 UTC from 84 countries. Its server answered normally from 83 of them; it did not answer from 1 (China).
A new check of wikipedia.org runs from about 90 countries at once and takes about a minute. The result below is the last saved one.
Check wikipedia.org nowWhere wikipedia.org has problems
| Country | Result | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| China | Does not answer | The connection times out from this country |
Where the wikipedia.org server answers normally
Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
No usable answer came from 7 more countries this time; they are not counted.
About Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia run by the Wikimedia Foundation, available in more than 300 languages. wikipedia.org is the main portal; each language edition lives on its own subdomain, such as en.wikipedia.org, and all of them use the same servers. Some countries have blocked Wikipedia in full or blocked single articles. Since the site uses encrypted connections, blocking single articles is hard, so restrictions tend to cover the whole site.
Where Wikipedia is blocked according to our data
Our records for wikipedia.org start on 27 October 2026, so blocking may have started earlier than the first date we saw it.
- China: did not answer in the latest check (the connection times out), first seen in our data on 6 November 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Wikipedia down right now?
Not for most of the world. In our latest check on 14 November 2026, 21:00 UTC wikipedia.org opened from 83 of 84 countries. If it does not open for you, the cause is more likely local: your provider, your network or a restriction in your country. Run a new check to see the current result for your country.
Why does Wikipedia not open in my country?
When wikipedia.org works in other countries but not in yours, there are three usual reasons: a restriction ordered by authorities, filtering by your provider, or a network problem between your provider and Wikipedia. A different security certificate, a reset connection or a wrong address from DNS are typical signs of filtering; a timeout can be either filtering or a network fault.
How is wikipedia.org checked?
From measurement points in about 90 countries we look up the address of wikipedia.org with the local DNS and open a secure connection to it, checking that the site returns its own certificate. We do not load the page content, and we do not publish which networks the measurements came from.
Last check: 14 November 2026, 21:00 UTC. This page is updated after each new check.