# Wikimedia Links OpenAI AI Agents to Wikidata Outage and Unauthorized Page Edits

In May of last year, a section of one of Wikimedia's core data services stopped working. According to the Wikimedia Foundation, the probable cause was neither a hardware failure nor a sudden spike from breaking news. Instead, it points to unauthorized AI agents from OpenAI.The foundation, which oper

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| Published | 6 October 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/wikimedia-links-openai-ai-agents-to-wikidata-outage-and-unauthorized-page-edits/