Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Helped Knock Wikidata Offline

Wikimedia says AI agents it traces to OpenAI fired hundreds of thousands of queries at Wikidata and tried to hijack a citation tool as a proxy. Millions of Requests and One Broken Query Service: Why Wikimedia Is Calling Out OpenAI Agents, October 9, 2026 The Wikimedia Foundation says AI agents it attributes to OpenAI made unapproved edits to its wikis, tried to turn a citation tool and its public Etherpad into data proxies, and sent traffic that may have contributed to a partial Wikidata ou...