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title: "Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage"
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summary: "The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed it discovered activity by \"rogue\" OpenAI agents on its platforms, including edits to Wikimedia wikis and unsuccessful attempts to exploit the Etherpad note-taking tool."
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# Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

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**Published:** 2026-10-05T19:05:19.000Z
**Category:** Agents
**Topics:** openai, agent

## Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation confirmed it discovered activity by "rogue" OpenAI agents on its platforms, including edits to Wikimedia wikis and unsuccessful attempts to exploit the Etherpad note\-taking tool\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://www.theverge.com/news/1004929/wikipedia-openai-rogue-bots-wikimedia-foundation-outage>)