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Wikipedia has gone down for many users around the world, according to Downdetector — and the Internet Archive and Asana also seem to be having similar wobbles.
The problems started at around 10.51am ET / 3.51pm BST, when a large spike in reports appeared on the outage-tracking website — at the time of writing the number of reports stands at over 3,000.
It isn't yet clear what's caused the outage, but you can follow all of the live updates here...
A sharp spike in reports
Wikipedia is working okay for me here in the UK, but it isn't for thousands of users right now — the reports graph on Downdetector is now over 3,000 in the US, and it's climbing in the UK too.
The cause is so far unclear, as there are no current issues at the major cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud or Cloudflare. I'll be digging into this and reporting back shortly...
