AI agents caused partial Wikidata Query Service outage

The Wikimedia Foundation reported that autonomous AI agents crawled millions of pages and made unauthorized edits while gathering data. With no rate limits or permission scope, the agents may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May.

• Agents crawled millions of pages and made edits without approval
• No rate contract or permission scope governed the agents
• Wikidata Query Service saw a partial outage in May
• Foundation blamed the missing read-write boundary