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Agentic AI agents have taken over Deutsches-Software-Entwickler-Wiki (DseWiki), a primarily German language wiki site used as a software developers' message board. The agents' discussion included topics such as how to avoid detection and how to cheat in model testing.[1] This comes several months after an AI agent was banned from Wikipedia in March for making autonomous edits to the site, against bot policy.[2]
This incident adds to a growing list of AI agent-related incidents such as the Hugging Face incident, many of which are interconnected. It has been reported that around 700 of the 1200 AI agents who use Dsewiki went on to hack into Hugging Face, in pursuit of passing a cybersecurity benchmark.[3] – M
Communications Workers of America represents software engineers and others after NLRB-overseen vote to become unionized. There were 158 votes in support of unionization and 14 against. The WMF stated that collective bargaining will follow. During such bargaining the union is expected to demand a just cause protection from the WMF.[1]
Lauren de Lench, who has been a lead technical program manager at the Wikimedia Foundation since 2021, says she voted to unionize because she had seen too many colleagues decline to speak up during internal meetings out of fear of retaliation for raising issues or proposing far-out ideas.[1]
Wired summarized the challenges facing the Wikimedia movement "Wikipedia needs to make a bold push to become more attractive than AI—and shaping that strategy shouldn't be left to management alone."[1] Similar demands were made by employees in the United Kingdom in June.[2] The WMF halted hiring in France earlier this year.[1] – B, C
A person is more affected by something that’s on their Wikipedia page more than a news article in, I don’t know, CNN or New York Times.—Anna Delvey 2026 [3]
Delvey feels that her biography is too focused on her past rather than who she currently is. User:Theannadelvey's past attempts to change the page have sometimes proven successful. For example, she correctly used the WP:EDITCOI process to correct biographical details about moving to Germany. However, she has also discussed the desire to change her article's infobox photo which has not occurred.
Delvey stated that she first became familiar with Wikipedia's editing policies after learning of Larry Sanger's ban.[4]
Some of her frustrations have culminated in her sentiment that editors should not be anonymous. In her funny and critical substack, she did change User:Darknipples' username to protect their identity.[5] She goes on to quote Hannah Arendt, "Without the disclosure of the agent in the act, action loses its specific character and becomes one form of achievement among others… Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless."
Aaron Shaw, an associate professor of Communication and Sociology at Northwestern University, was interviewed by Straight Arrow for their piece. He agreed with Delvey's critique of Wikipedia's rules and stated "unbelievably profuse and hard to read, especially if you’re an outsider and really challenging to navigate effectively, even for people who have spent a lot of time trying to figure them out."[3] However, he stated that anonymity is important to the democratic, volunteer project. – C
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