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The foundation says agents it believes are operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to its public APIs, crawled millions of pages mainly on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, and made hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service.

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Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WQDS).

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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia Foundation · 2026-10-05

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Wikimedia says agents it believes OpenAI ran edited its wikis 6 Oct 2026

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“The foundation says agents it believes are operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to its public APIs, crawled millions of pages mainly on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, and made hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service.” ai notis, checked 6 Oct 2026. Source: OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation). https://ainotis.com/c/637

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ai notis. (2026, October 6). The foundation says agents it believes are operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to its public APIs, crawled millions of pages mainly on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, and made hundreds of thousands of queries to the Wikidata Query Service [Checked claim 637]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/637

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