Wikipedia spent hours offline on Monday as two cables near a data centre in Florida were accidentally cut.
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Loyal users looking to benefit from the donation based service either could not gain access or were confronted with long wait times.
According to the BBC, a generated web page showed parts of the Wikimedia network was facing performance issues.
The two cables stretched between Tampa and Virginia and were broken for 66 minutes in total, but it took another hour for just the basic service to be resumed.
Wikimedia spokesperson David Gerard informed the BBC that the problem has been fixed.
“Things appear to have been patched up, services are being brought back and things are getting to OK now,” he said.
“Someone cut the cables going to the Tampa, Florida data centre. We have two big [centres], one in Florida and one in Virginia, and some network proxies in Amsterdam.
“Everyone in that data centre was affected!”
Wikimedia was unsure what caused the cut but ruled out vandalism.
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