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=== Simple Article Summaries ===
In 2025, Wikimedia started testing a "Simple Article Summaries" feature which would provide AI-generated summaries of Wikipedia articles, similar to [[Google Search]]'s [[AI Overviews]]. The decision was met with immediate and harsh criticism from Wikipedia editors, who called the feature a "ghastly idea" and a "PR hype stunt." They criticized a perceived loss of trust in the site due to AI's tendency to [[Hallucination (artificial intelligence)|hallucinate]] and questioned the necessity of the feature.<ref>https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/yuck-wikipedia-pauses-ai-summaries-after-editor-revolt/</ref> The negative criticism led Wikimedia to halt the rollout of Simple Article Summaries while hinting that they are still interested in how generative AI could be integrated into Wikipedia.<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-pilot-after-editors-protest/</ref>
==Using artificial intelligence for other Wikimedia projects==▼
=== Detox ===▼
Detox was a project by Google, in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation, to research methods that could be used to address users posting unkind comments in Wikimedia community discussions.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Research:Detox - Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox |language=en}}</ref> Among other parts of the Detox project, the Wikimedia Foundation and [[Jigsaw (company)|Jigsaw]] collaborated to use artificial intelligence for basic research and to develop technical solutions{{examples needed|date=April 2023}} to address the problem. In October 2016 those organizations published "Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale" describing their findings.<ref>{{Cite book |pages=1391–1399 |doi=10.1145/3038912.3052591 |arxiv=1610.08914|year=2017 |last1=Wulczyn |first1=Ellery |last2=Thain |first2=Nithum |last3=Dixon |first3=Lucas |title=Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web |chapter=Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale |isbn=9781450349130 |s2cid=6060248 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Jigsaw |title=Algorithms And Insults: Scaling Up Our Understanding Of Harassment On Wikipedia |url=https://medium.com/jigsaw/algorithms-and-insults-scaling-up-our-understanding-of-harassment-on-wikipedia-6cc417b9f7ff |website=Medium |date=7 February 2017}}</ref> Various popular media outlets reported on the publication of this paper and described the social context of the research.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wakabayashi |first1=Daisuke |title=Google Cousin Develops Technology to Flag Toxic Online Comments |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/technology/google-jigsaw-monitor-toxic-online-comments.html |journal=The New York Times |language=en |date=23 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Smellie |first1=Sarah |title=Inside Wikipedia's Attempt to Use Artificial Intelligence to Combat Harassment |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-jigsaw-google-artificial-intelligence/ |website=Motherboard |publisher=[[Vice Media]] |language=en-us |date=17 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gershgorn |first1=Dave |title=Alphabet's hate-fighting AI doesn't understand hate yet |url=https://qz.com/918640/alphabets-hate-fighting-ai-doesnt-understand-hate-yet/ |website=Quartz |date=27 February 2017}}</ref>▼
[[File:DeepL machine translation of English Wikipedia example.png|thumb|Machine translation software such as [[DeepL]] is used by contributors.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Costa-jussà |first1=Marta R. |last2=Cross |first2=James |last3=Çelebi |first3=Onur |last4=Elbayad |first4=Maha |last5=Heafield |first5=Kenneth |last6=Heffernan |first6=Kevin |last7=Kalbassi |first7=Elahe |last8=Lam |first8=Janice |last9=Licht |first9=Daniel |last10=Maillard |first10=Jean |last11=Sun |first11=Anna |last12=Wang |first12=Skyler |last13=Wenzek |first13=Guillaume |last14=Youngblood |first14=Al |last15=Akula |first15=Bapi |last16=Barrault |first16=Loic |last17=Gonzalez |first17=Gabriel Mejia |last18=Hansanti |first18=Prangthip |last19=Hoffman |first19=John |last20=Jarrett |first20=Semarley |last21=Sadagopan |first21=Kaushik Ram |last22=Rowe |first22=Dirk |last23=Spruit |first23=Shannon |last24=Tran |first24=Chau |last25=Andrews |first25=Pierre |last26=Ayan |first26=Necip Fazil |last27=Bhosale |first27=Shruti |last28=Edunov |first28=Sergey |last29=Fan |first29=Angela |last30=Gao |first30=Cynthia |last31=Goswami |first31=Vedanuj |last32=Guzmán |first32=Francisco |last33=Koehn |first33=Philipp |last34=Mourachko |first34=Alexandre |last35=Ropers |first35=Christophe |last36=Saleem |first36=Safiyyah |last37=Schwenk |first37=Holger |last38=Wang |first38=Jeff |title=Scaling neural machine translation to 200 languages |journal=Nature |date=June 2024 |volume=630 |issue=8018 |pages=841–846 |doi=10.1038/s41586-024-07335-x |pmid=38839963 |language=en |issn=1476-4687|pmc=11208141 |bibcode=2024Natur.630..841N }}</ref><ref name="nyt180724">{{cite news |date=18 July 2023 |title=Wikipedia's Moment of Truth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html |access-date=29 November 2024 |work=New York Times}}</ref><ref name="considerations">{{cite arXiv |title=Considerations for Multilingual Wikipedia Research |eprint=2204.02483 |last1=Johnson |first1=Isaac |last2=Lescak |first2=Emily |date=2022 |class=cs.CY }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mamadouh |first1=Virginie |title=Handbook of the Changing World Language Map |date=2020 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-02438-3 |pages=3773–3799 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_200 |language=en |chapter=Wikipedia: Mirror, Microcosm, and Motor of Global Linguistic Diversity|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_200 |quote=Some versions have expanded dramatically using machine translation through the work of bots or web robots generating articles by translating them automatically from the other Wikipedias, often the English Wikipedia. […] In any event, the English Wikipedia is different from the others because it clearly serves a global audience, while other versions serve more localized audience, even if the Portuguese, Spanish, and French Wikipedias also serves a public spread across different continents}}</ref> More than 40% of Wikipedia's active editors▼
are in [[English Wikipedia]].<ref>{{cite arXiv |title=InfoSync: Information Synchronization across Multilingual Semi-structured Tables |eprint=2307.03313 |last1=Khincha |first1=Siddharth |last2=Jain |first2=Chelsi |last3=Gupta |first3=Vivek |last4=Kataria |first4=Tushar |last5=Zhang |first5=Shuo |date=2023 |class=cs.CL }}</ref>]]▼
== Using Wikipedia for artificial intelligence ==
In the development of the Google's [[Perspective API]] that identifies toxic comments in online forums, a dataset containing hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia talk page comments with human-labelled toxicity levels was used.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-09-01 |title=Google's comment-ranking system will be a hit with the alt-right |url=https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/01/google-perspective-comment-ranking-system/ |work=Engadget}}</ref> Subsets of the Wikipedia corpus are considered the largest well-curated data sets available for AI training.<ref name="nyt180724" /><ref name="considerations" />
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There is a concern about the lack of [[Creative Commons license#Attribution|attribution]] to Wikipedia articles in large-language models like ChatGPT.<ref name="nyt180724" /><ref>{{cite news |date=28 March 2025 |title=Wikipedia Built the Internet's Brain. Now Its Leaders Want Credit. |url=https://observer.com/2025/03/wikimedia-foundation-execs-speak-on-ai-scraping-attribution-and-wikipedias-future/ |access-date=2 April 2025 |work=Observer |quote=Attributions, however, remain a sticking point. Citations not only give credit but also help Wikipedia attract new editors and donors. ” If our content is getting sucked into an LLM without attribution or links, that’s a real problem for us in the short term,”}}</ref> While Wikipedia's licensing policy lets anyone use its texts, including in modified forms, it does have the condition that credit is given, implying that using its contents in answers by AI models without clarifying the sourcing may violate its terms of use.<ref name="nyt180724" />
▲==Using artificial intelligence for other Wikimedia projects==
▲=== Detox ===
▲Detox was a project by Google, in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation, to research methods that could be used to address users posting unkind comments in Wikimedia community discussions.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Research:Detox - Meta |url=https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox |language=en}}</ref> Among other parts of the Detox project, the Wikimedia Foundation and [[Jigsaw (company)|Jigsaw]] collaborated to use artificial intelligence for basic research and to develop technical solutions{{examples needed|date=April 2023}} to address the problem. In October 2016 those organizations published "Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale" describing their findings.<ref>{{Cite book |pages=1391–1399 |doi=10.1145/3038912.3052591 |arxiv=1610.08914|year=2017 |last1=Wulczyn |first1=Ellery |last2=Thain |first2=Nithum |last3=Dixon |first3=Lucas |title=Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web |chapter=Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale |isbn=9781450349130 |s2cid=6060248 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Jigsaw |title=Algorithms And Insults: Scaling Up Our Understanding Of Harassment On Wikipedia |url=https://medium.com/jigsaw/algorithms-and-insults-scaling-up-our-understanding-of-harassment-on-wikipedia-6cc417b9f7ff |website=Medium |date=7 February 2017}}</ref> Various popular media outlets reported on the publication of this paper and described the social context of the research.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wakabayashi |first1=Daisuke |title=Google Cousin Develops Technology to Flag Toxic Online Comments |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/technology/google-jigsaw-monitor-toxic-online-comments.html |journal=The New York Times |language=en |date=23 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Smellie |first1=Sarah |title=Inside Wikipedia's Attempt to Use Artificial Intelligence to Combat Harassment |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-jigsaw-google-artificial-intelligence/ |website=Motherboard |publisher=[[Vice Media]] |language=en-us |date=17 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gershgorn |first1=Dave |title=Alphabet's hate-fighting AI doesn't understand hate yet |url=https://qz.com/918640/alphabets-hate-fighting-ai-doesnt-understand-hate-yet/ |website=Quartz |date=27 February 2017}}</ref>
▲[[File:DeepL machine translation of English Wikipedia example.png|thumb|Machine translation software such as [[DeepL]] is used by contributors.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Costa-jussà |first1=Marta R. |last2=Cross |first2=James |last3=Çelebi |first3=Onur |last4=Elbayad |first4=Maha |last5=Heafield |first5=Kenneth |last6=Heffernan |first6=Kevin |last7=Kalbassi |first7=Elahe |last8=Lam |first8=Janice |last9=Licht |first9=Daniel |last10=Maillard |first10=Jean |last11=Sun |first11=Anna |last12=Wang |first12=Skyler |last13=Wenzek |first13=Guillaume |last14=Youngblood |first14=Al |last15=Akula |first15=Bapi |last16=Barrault |first16=Loic |last17=Gonzalez |first17=Gabriel Mejia |last18=Hansanti |first18=Prangthip |last19=Hoffman |first19=John |last20=Jarrett |first20=Semarley |last21=Sadagopan |first21=Kaushik Ram |last22=Rowe |first22=Dirk |last23=Spruit |first23=Shannon |last24=Tran |first24=Chau |last25=Andrews |first25=Pierre |last26=Ayan |first26=Necip Fazil |last27=Bhosale |first27=Shruti |last28=Edunov |first28=Sergey |last29=Fan |first29=Angela |last30=Gao |first30=Cynthia |last31=Goswami |first31=Vedanuj |last32=Guzmán |first32=Francisco |last33=Koehn |first33=Philipp |last34=Mourachko |first34=Alexandre |last35=Ropers |first35=Christophe |last36=Saleem |first36=Safiyyah |last37=Schwenk |first37=Holger |last38=Wang |first38=Jeff |title=Scaling neural machine translation to 200 languages |journal=Nature |date=June 2024 |volume=630 |issue=8018 |pages=841–846 |doi=10.1038/s41586-024-07335-x |pmid=38839963 |language=en |issn=1476-4687|pmc=11208141 |bibcode=2024Natur.630..841N }}</ref><ref name="nyt180724">{{cite news |date=18 July 2023 |title=Wikipedia's Moment of Truth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html |access-date=29 November 2024 |work=New York Times}}</ref><ref name="considerations">{{cite arXiv |title=Considerations for Multilingual Wikipedia Research |eprint=2204.02483 |last1=Johnson |first1=Isaac |last2=Lescak |first2=Emily |date=2022 |class=cs.CY }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mamadouh |first1=Virginie |title=Handbook of the Changing World Language Map |date=2020 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-02438-3 |pages=3773–3799 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_200 |language=en |chapter=Wikipedia: Mirror, Microcosm, and Motor of Global Linguistic Diversity|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-02438-3_200 |quote=Some versions have expanded dramatically using machine translation through the work of bots or web robots generating articles by translating them automatically from the other Wikipedias, often the English Wikipedia. […] In any event, the English Wikipedia is different from the others because it clearly serves a global audience, while other versions serve more localized audience, even if the Portuguese, Spanish, and French Wikipedias also serves a public spread across different continents}}</ref> More than 40% of Wikipedia's active editors
▲are in [[English Wikipedia]].<ref>{{cite arXiv |title=InfoSync: Information Synchronization across Multilingual Semi-structured Tables |eprint=2307.03313 |last1=Khincha |first1=Siddharth |last2=Jain |first2=Chelsi |last3=Gupta |first3=Vivek |last4=Kataria |first4=Tushar |last5=Zhang |first5=Shuo |date=2023 |class=cs.CL }}</ref>]]
== Reactions ==
In November 2023, Wikipedia co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] said that AI is not a reliable source and that he is not going to use ChatGPT to write Wikipedia articles. In July 2025, he proposed the use of LLMs to provide customized default feedback when drafts are rejected.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maiberg |first=Emanuel |date=Aug 21, 2025 |title=Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' |url=https://www.404media.co/jimmy-wales-wikipedia-ai-chatgpt/ |website=404 Media}}</ref>
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