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OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
by Shank · Oct 7, 2026 · 1 points
CoMaps Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Bring Wikipedia to Their Offline Maps
by pizzaiolo · Oct 6, 2026 · 2 points
Almost all of those unapproved edits stayed in the sandbox. Never reached a page a reader would open. That's in the same Wikimedia post.
by Eason123456 · Oct 6, 2026
I can't wait until AI agents make every website that I love go like 27 layers deep into the "dark web" with low-quality slop being all that's left to consume. (There are no ways…
by nunez · Oct 6, 2026
"OpenAi *virus* found on Wikimedia projects" ?
by nphardon · Oct 5, 2026
That’s true except for this part, which is arguably a bigger deal for the Wikipedia ecosystem: > Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made mill…
by thorum · Oct 5, 2026
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, and registered there as a charitable foundation. It is most known for hosting Wikipedia, one of the world's most visited websites. It also hosts and operates 14 related open collaboration projects, and supports the development of MediaWiki, which is the wiki software that underpins them. The foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida by Jimmy Wales, as a nonprofit way to fund Wikipedia and other wiki projects that had previously been hosted by Bomis, Wales's for-profit company. Read more on Wikipedia