Recently, opening anything in Guild Wars Wiki often results in "403 Forbidden". Is this a server issue for everyone of is it somehow related to my browser (Firefox)? Usually waiting for a minute and reloading solves the issue, but it is quite annoying.
Guild Wars Wiki 403 Forbidden
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Nothing on my end with Firefox and Windows 11. Try using another browser. If that doesn't work, it's a general issue on your end (permissions, configuration, IP, etc, related to error 403). If it works, it's only related to your Firefox configuration.
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Know it’s a little late, but I think it’s serverside.
Had it many times, form different locations, via Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Happens to the GW2 Wiki too.
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Usually only get this error when I'm using a VPN, not sure if you're using one or not but figured I'd mention that.
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bsoltan
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 AM Moved the thread from forum Questions and Answers to forum General. -
Having similar issues with Telekom.
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Already talked to OP on discord, but posting here as well. The long story short is that the wiki (the full suite of wikis, GWW, GW2W EN, GW2W DE, GW2W FR, and GW2W ES) (and websites on the internet in general) have had to deal with a lot of botscraping over the past couple years due to the rise of LLMs, to the point that without some bordering-on-draconian firewall rules, the wikis would be too DDOS'd to be accessible to anyone.
So if you're trying to browse special pages like WhatLinksHere and so forth, it's normal to get 403 errors while not logged in. You can solve this by making an account.
If making an account (and being logged into your account) doesn't solve your issue, you can post on https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Help:Ask_a_wiki_question or on the GW2W discord in the #wiki-not-game-support channel (just specify that it's about GW1W). Helpful information is the specific page(s) you get 403'd on, the date and time (with timezone), and your username/IP.
On a sidenote, if you need to quickly contact GWW admins, there's a #gw1w channel on the GW2W discord that a bunch of us are in and keep an eye on.
