Reuters: Wikimedia says OpenAI-linked agents may have helped push Wikidata's query service partially offline.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, said the OpenAI linked agents possibly made millions of API requests and crawled millions of pages, mostly on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

Wikimedia's incident record dates that partial outage to May 7-11 and also blames aggressive scrapers, so the foundation claims only a possible contribution.

The agents also edited Wikimedia wikis without the community approval bots require, though almost all were test edits in sandbox areas readers never see.

A few edits changed a citation tool's settings, which the foundation called potentially malicious attempts to turn it into a proxy for fetching outside data.

Agents also tried and failed to use the public Etherpad note-taking service as a proxy, and Wikimedia found no compromised systems or data.

OpenAI said it was working with Wikimedia to analyze the activity and would share relevant information as that work progresses.