The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed to delete articles and place Russian text in the edit summary.

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 ...

"Meanwhile, during that same 25-year period, Wikipedia has gone from being kind of a joke to one of the few things people trust," says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, whose new book The Seven Rules of ...

A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn’t stirred since 2024 – and within ...

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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 ...

Trump reportedly burst out laughing when intelligence officials told him Mojtaba Khamanei is gay.

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Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has told national TV that she wishes she had never met late US sex offender Jeffrey ...