Wikimedia maintenance notice

What's happening?
The Wikimedia Foundation will be performing network maintenance on Tuesday, May 24 from 13:00 to 14:00 (UTC) (see other timezones on timeanddate.com).

During the maintenance period, you may experience intermittent connection issues to Wikimedia Foundation websites, including wikipedia.org.

We have been experiencing router networking issues (and as a direct result, latency issues) since last week. After much investigation, and temporary fixes, we have now decided to update the router software and tune the configuration.

What to do if you encounter an issue

 * Wait a few minutes; the tech team may be already aware of the issue and working on it. As long as you see the maintenance banner, it means maintenance is still planned or happening.
 * Join the #wikimedia-tech channel on Freenode:
 * If you have an IRC client, use this direct link: #wikimedia-tech.
 * Otherwise, see the IRC help page or use Freenode's webchat platform.
 * If you encounter an issue after the maintenance banner has disappeared, please report it on IRC or on our bug tracker.

Thank you!