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The purpose of this page is to help users of Wikipedia solve problems they may encounter when browsing or editing. Note: If you're trying to get help for a specific technical problem that isn't answered by the FAQs, try asking at Wikipedia:Troubleshooting or at the Village pump .
Connect to a different internet or network connection (such as your mobile device's LTE or data service, or a different WiFi connection). If you're currently on a work, public, school, or shared internet connection that may be behind a proxy filter, use your home or other internet connection that is open and not behind a proxy server [notes 1].
Request: POST https://en.wikipedia.org from 127.0.0.1 Forwarded for: 192.0.2.16 Error: 503, Backend fetch failed at 13:31, Wednesday, January 22, 2025 That message gives the impression that the web servers are "too busy" to respond, but often is caused by the complexity of the page that it needs to display.
If your question is about a Wikipedia article, draft article, or other page on Wikipedia, tell us what it is! Check back on this page to see if your question has been answered. For real-time help, use our IRC help channel, #wikipedia-en-help. New editors may prefer the Teahouse, a help area for beginners (but please don't ask in both places).
The bot will iterate through each config file and use OpenVPN to test if it can connect. If successful, it will then use the VPN to send a request to this WhatIsMyIPAddress API to determine the real-world IP address used by each VPN to connect to Wikipedia. This is sometimes the same as the IP used to talk to the VPN - but sometimes completely ...
If you have never edited Wikipedia before and/or do not have an account, you may need to create one. This will normally allow you to edit despite the block on your IP address. If you are currently blocked from creating an account, and cannot create one elsewhere in the foreseeable future, consider requesting one at Wikipedia:Request an account.
As a logged in user, you will be able to create your own user page and user talk page. When you are logged in, you will see your username displayed at the top right of the page. Click on this to get to your user page, which you can edit in the same way as any other wiki page.
Wikipedia gets own server, running English Wikipedia and after a bit meta, with rewritten PHP software. Runs both the database and the web server on one machine. One of Bomis's servers continues to host some of the other languages on UseModWiki, but most of the active ones are gradually moved over to the other server during this period.