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Oct 6 2026

Wikimedia says its own investigation traced unapproved edits and millions of automated requests to OpenAI agents

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Chief product and technology officer Selena Deckelmann described edits to pages, attempts to use the citation tool as a proxy and an Etherpad exploit attempt, with hundreds of thousands of requests reaching the Wikidata Query Service. Wikimedia is unsure it was among the 100-plus organizations OpenAI alerted on October 2nd and wants traffic tagged.

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