The fight to keep the internet’s encyclopedia bot-free scored a big win.

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A serious security incident occurred across Wikimedia projects, including the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, on March 5, 2026. The issue compromised an administrator account at the Wikimedia ...

Wikipedia briefly went into "read-only mode" this morning and disabled article editing after a malicious piece of code was detected that could delete entries. Initially, Wikipedia editors uncovered ...

A recent security incident affected Wikipedia when a self-propagating JavaScript worm began modifying user scripts and vandalizing pages. The problem was first noticed by editors who reported unusual ...

Update: Added Wikimedia Foundation's statement below and made a correction to denote it was only the Meta-Wiki that was vandalized. The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a ...

Wikipedia Forced to Lock Down Edits Over JavaScript That Could Delete Pages The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed ...

It was an interview that lasted less than a minute. German journalist Tilo Jung (who has a Wikipedia page) sat down with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, although not for long. Wales introduced himself, ...

On Jan. 15, 2001, the earliest edit found on Wikipedia’s homepage announced, “This is the new WikiPedia!” Twenty-five years later, Wikipedia remains a key source of knowledge on the internet, ...