Wikipedia.org Returns a 503 Error

It may just be me. But I see this too (as well as 504 gateway timeouts), sitewide at least for en.wikipedia.org. I reported my issue to https://downdetector.com/status/wikipedia/ but we shall see if it's just all in my head.

EDIT: 2022-05-23 17:53 EST - she's back for me, Jim.

503 in the UK as well. Not good. This might be a helpful alternative: https://www.openzim.org/wiki/OpenZIM

ZIM/Kiwix is great! It even works via NAS or USB drive on iOS (i.e. without having to load the entire file into internal storage).

I'm experiencing the same.

> Investigating - We are aware that many users are having trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, and we are investigating. May 23, 21:30 UTC

via https://www.wikimediastatus.net/

I have found happiness by using Privacy Redirect to convert all Wikipedia links to wikiless.org

And it's back online...

That was fast :)