Wikipedia vs. Rogue AI Agents: Inside OpenAI’s Run on the Open Web
The Wikimedia Foundation has spent months absorbing automated traffic its servers were never dimensioned to handle, and on October 5, 2026 it went public. In a formal statement, the non-profit confirmed that AI agents had hammered Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with millions of automated requests — and that some of them tried, without success, … Read more