ACTUAL STATE

Problems, Crashes and Errors of Wikipedia TODAY

Can't connect to Wikipedia? Trying to open Wikipedia but the site is down and appears to be offline today? Check the issue below if it's down for everyone else or just you!

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Status of Wikipedia in the last 24 hours

81%
server status
80% Complete
18
countries
30% Complete
201ms
Response time
20% Complete

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In Isnotdown, you will be able to instantly check if Wikipedia works perfectly, or on the contrary, if it is registering some type of problem to offer its services.

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Frequent failures of Wikipedia

The majority of the encyclopedia is written by male editors, leading to a gender bias in coverage, and the make up of the editing community has prompted concerns about racial bias, spin bias, corporate bias, and national bias, among others.

Wikipedia is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or remove erroneous suggestions, they have no legal duty to do so.
All information found on the site is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.

Reference Services Review, 36(1), 7–22.
"The study did reveal inaccuracies in eight of the nine entries and exposed major flaws in at least two of the nine Wikipedia articles.
Overall, Wikipedia's accuracy rate was 80 percent compared with 95-96 percent accuracy within the other sources.
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The crowdsourced nature of Wikipedia can lead to the exclusion of some voices and topics.
Although anyone can edit, not everyone does.
On the issue of gender bias, Wikipedia acknowledges that most contributors are male, few biographies are about women, and topics of interest to women receive less coverage.

Troubleshooting Tips

Problem solved? Still can't connect to Wikipedia? Continue with Step 2.
Turn it on again. Clear internet cookies and browser cache.
Still stuck and not enjoying Wikipedia, then go to Step 3.
Temporarily disable your antivirus or firewall running in the background. Now, if you can access Wikipedia, be informed that your security software is causing problems. Try adding Wikipedia to the set of trusted sites.
DNS is a service that translates Wikipedia into a machine-readable address called an IP address. In most cases, this job is done by your ISP. If only specific sites are not opening, it is likely to be corrupted.

Ask for direct help to the administrators of Wikipedia



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