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An overview of artificial intelligence related to
English Wikipedia's administration and governance
Artificial intelligence
AI
) is used on a number of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. This may be directly involved with creation of text content, or in support roles related to evaluating article quality, adding metadata, or generating images. As with any machine-generated content, care must be used when employing
AI
at scale or in applying it where the community consensus is to exercise more caution.
When exploring AI techniques and systems, the community consensus is to prefer human decisions over machine-generated outcomes until the implications are better understood.
What is Wikipedia's AI policy?
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Overview
Wikipedia:Editing policy#Artificial intelligence additions
WP:EPAI
The use of
AI writing tools
such as
large language models
(LLMs) for the
creation or rewriting of articles
, or their usage to generate
images
sources
or
comments
, save for a few exceptions, is generally prohibited.
Content creation and rewrites
Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models
WP:LLM
) comprises one main point:
The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited
Exceptions are made for
basic copyediting
and translation. The latter is covered by another dedicated guideline,
Wikipedia:LLM-assisted translation
WP:LLMT
), requiring the editor to be skilled in both the origin and target languages and to carefully review the output before publishing it in articles.
Other policies and guidelines
See also:
WP:AIPOLICY
and
WP:AIGUIDELINE
Other policies and guidelines contain certain provisions that are specifically about AI-generated content. As of March 2026
[update]
, they are as follows:
Wikipedia:Speedy deletion § G15. LLM-generated pages without human review
WP:G15
), which forms the policy basis to
speedily delete pages that could only plausibly have been generated by large language models without reasonable human review
Wikipedia:Image use policy § AI-generated images
WP:AIIMAGES
), a policy section against the use of images wholly generated by AI
referred to in
Wikipedia:No original research § Original images
WP:IMAGEOR
portion of
Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons § Images
WP:AIIMGBLP
), a policy norm against the use of AI-generated images to depict subjects of BLPs
portion of
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images § Editing images
MOS:AIUPSCALE
), a MoS norm against the use of
AI upscaling
software
portion of
Wikipedia:Public domain § Works ineligible for copyright protection
WP:NONCREATIVE
), a guideline paragraph recounting the legal principle that works created by machines are not copyrightable (generally valid as of 2025
[update]
Wikipedia:Reliable sources § Sources produced by machine learning
WP:RSML
), a guideline section against citing AI-generated content as sources
referred to in
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources § Large language models
WP:RSPLLM
), an information page
Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines § LLM-generated
WP:AITALK
), a guideline entry allowing the striking or collapsing of comments that are obviously generated by an LLM or similar AI technology
Additional resources
The following are not policies or guidelines, but still have some significance in this context:
Wikipedia:Large language models § Risks and relevant policies
, an essay aiming to explain how the broad
core content policies
and the
copyrights policy
interact with the use of AI tools, mostly in the domain of text
Wikipedia:Translation § Machine translation
WP:MACHINE
), an information page section concerning
neural machine translation
(i.e., "AI translation")
an entry in
Wikipedia:Drafts § Reasons to move an article to draftspace
WP:DRAFTREASON
), an explanatory essay about policies on editing and deletion
portion of
Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks § Composing your request to be unblocked
WP:NICETRY
), an explanatory essay stating that unblock requests that appear to be written using AI are likely to be summarily rejected
Discussion timeline
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Date
Type
Page
Discussion
Conclusion/Notes
Dec 2022
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
Wikipedia response to chatbot-generated content
Feb 2023
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
OpenAI and ChatGPT
Disclosure suggested
Mar 2023
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
Adding LLM edit tag
Impractical with current technology
Jun 2023
Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)
GPT-4 user-created template at top of page
Oct 2023
RfC
Wikipedia talk:Large language models
RfC: Is this proposal ready to be promoted?
Overwhelming consensus to not promote.
Oct 2023
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
Project Res-Up
About using AI to increase resolution on old photos
Nov 2023
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
Scoring for Wikipedia type Articles Generated by LLM
External research project hoping to recruit Wikipedia editors for off-wiki feedback (
not
editing here)
Jan 2024
RfC
Wikipedia talk:Large language model policy
RFC
No consensus to adopt any wording as either a policy or guideline at this time.
Jan 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
Can Wikipedia Provide An AI Tool To Evaluate News and Information on the Internet
Jan 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
Use of ChatGPT and other LLMs specifically for medical and scientific content
For text, not photos
Feb 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
Have a way to prevent "hallucinated" AI-generated citations in articles
Goal supported in theory
Feb 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
AI-generated images
Precursor to the April 2025 RfC
Mar 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
AI helper
Tool idea for creating articles
Mar 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
What if we had an AI to suggest edits along the lines of edits typically made by good editors?
Tool idea for smaller edits
Mar 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
AI for WP guidelines/ policies
AI-based search of Wikipedia's ruleset
May 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
Another job aid proposal, this time with AI
Aug 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
Proposal: Create quizzes on Wikipedia
AI not seen as integral to the idea
Oct 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)
Feedback on chatbots as valid sources, or identifiers of them
Oct 2024
Module talk:Find sources
Chatbots as valid sources or identifiers of them
Not supported at this time
Nov 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
Add AI translation option for translating from English to non-English article.
Off topic, as we don't decide what happens to other Wikipedias
Nov 2024
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
Wiki AI?
Request for a chatbot
Dec 2024
RfC
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
LLM/chatbot comments in discussions
Consensus that "it is within admins' and closers' discretion to discount, strike, or collapse obvious use of generative LLMs" (
Now in guideline:
WP:AITALK
Jan 2025
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)
The use of AI-generated content
Proposed rule accepting LLMs for translation and grammar but not on talk pages; not accepted
Jan 2025
RfC
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/AI images
BLPs
Clear consensus against using AI-generated imagery to depict BLP subjects. (
Now in policy:
WP:AIIMGBLP
Jan 2025
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
Adding the undisclosed use of AI to post a wall of text into discussions as disruptive editing
Not
inherently
disruptive, but can be disruptive
Feb 2025
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
The real use case for AI on Wikipedia
Ideas for copyediting and grammar fixes
Mar 2025
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
URLs with utm_source=chatgpt.com codes
Apr 2025
RfC
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/AI images
Relist with broader question: Ban all AI images?
"Most images wholly generated by AI should not be used." "Obvious exceptions include articles about AI, and articles about notable AI-generated images. The community objects particularly strongly to AI-generated images (1) of named people, and (2) in technical or scientific subjects such as anatomy and chemistry." (
Now in policy:
WP:AIIMAGES
Jun 2025
RfC
Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF)
RfC: Adopting a community position on WMF AI development
Pending closure
Jun 2025
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
Simple summaries: editor survey and 2-week mobile study
The WMF announced that machine-generated summaries of articles would be presented to readers, but then put the project on hold in response to negative community feedback.
Jul 2025
RfC
Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion
RFC: New CSD for unreviewed LLM content
Overwhelming consensus
to adopt new speedy deletion criterion (
Now in policy:
WP:G15
Aug 2025
RfC
Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion
RfC: Including Markdown in G15
Consensus against including Markdown in G15 as it is not consistently an indicator of LLM-generated content.
Aug 2025
RfC
Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion
RfC: Including emojis in G15
There was no consensus to adopt this criterion.
Aug 2025
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)
LLM/AI generated proposals?
Discussion archived
Sep 2025
Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)
AI Moderator proposal
Idea to augment existing edit filters/recent changes patrolling with an LLM, inspired by a
Reddit extension
Sep 2025
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)
What is Wikipedia’s official stance on Ai-generated content
Discussion archived
Oct 2025
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea lab)
Add a bot/policy that bans AI edits from non-extended confirmed users
Discussion archived
Oct 2025
RfC
Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models
Wikipedia talk:Writing articles with large language models § RfC
Now in guideline:
WP:NEWLLM
Oct 2025
RfC
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)
WP:VPR § RFC: New GA quick fail criterion for AI
The support fell below consensus to promote the proposal.
Dec 2025
RfC
Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Replace NEWLLM
RfC: Replace WP:NEWLLM
The support fell below consensus to promote the proposal.
Jan 2026
RfC
Wikipedia talk:Translation
§ Request for comment
Now in guideline:
WP:LLMTRANSLATE
Jan 2026
RfC
Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/RfC LLMCOMM guideline
§ RfC: Turning LLMCOMM into a guideline
Not adopted
Mar 2026
RfC
WP:Writing articles with large language models
WP:Writing articles with large language models/RfC
Consensus to replace the text of
WP:NEWLLM
with that of
WP:Writing articles with large language models/March 2026 proposal
Now in guideline:
WP:NEWLLM
Applications
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Further information:
meta:Artificial intelligence
AI-related efforts on Wikipedia include but are not limited to:
Revision scoring
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The Objective Revision Evaluation Service (
ORES
) was started in 2015 as a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, and provides a
revision score
against
machine learning
models that have been trained in order to report article quality or vandalism. This is used in tools such as
ClueBot NG
to help immediately revert vandalism, or in evaluation tools like the
Program and Events Dashboard
to measure the outcomes of classwork, edit-a-thons, or organized editing campaigns.
Text translation
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Guidance can be found at
Wikipedia:LLM-assisted translation
. Editors are required to be skilled enough in both the target language and English to verify the translation, and to check the output for AI hallucinations, core content policy violations, and text-source integrity. LLM-assisted translations must also comply with
other translation requirements
There is a
Content Translation Tool
used across Wikimedia projects that can use the output of machine translation from one Wikipedia article to another, using services like
Google Translate
. However, on the English Wikipedia, it currently states that "machine translation is disabled for all users and this tool is limited to extended confirmed editors." As a result, only manual translation on the English Wikipedia is supported by the tool, though some users have used translation to Simple English as a workaround. Relatedly, there is a section of the Help:Translation page with the broad advice: "avoid machine translations."
Article text generation
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See also:
Wikipedia:Large language models
See also:
Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models
Further information:
AI-generated content on Wikipedia
The explosion of interest in
ChatGPT
in 2022 has led to increased curiosity in using generative AI to help compose Wikipedia articles. However, current consensus is that "the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited." The status of machine-generated text from tools such as ChatGPT is generally accepted to be public domain, so the copyright issues are not a blocker to using the generated text from a legal standpoint. These issues are generally governed by
Help:Adding open license text to Wikipedia#Converting and adding open license text to Wikipedia
, which advises to make sure content is adjusted for style and that reliable sources are used.
Images and Commons
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Image metadata
– There have been efforts from
GLAM
institutions to help supplement image keyword data with machine learning efforts. Among them include:
Computer aided tagging
Started in 2019, "The computer-aided tagging tool is a feature in development by the Structured Data on Commons team to assist community members in identifying and labeling depicts statements for Commons files." See:
c:Commons:Structured data/Computer-aided tagging
Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging
- This project used Met Museum tagging info to train a machine learning system to help predict new "depiction" recommendations for Wikidata. This resulted in a new Wikidata Game that helped add more than 4,000 new depiction (P180) statements to Wikidata. See the Met Museum blog post by
Andrew Lih
: "Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale," March 4, 2019,
[1]
Image generation
Wikimedia Commons and AI generated media
AI images and German Wikipedia
, results of a meeting
A Battle for Reality
, video essay on AI images and Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons AI
, a rejected proposal for a new Wikimedia sister project aimed at establishing a clear distinction between human-generated content and content produced by artificial intelligence
The four categories
, an idea about dividing all images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in one of four categories
See also
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Artificial intelligence in Wikimedia projects
Wikipedia:Large language models
, an essay on using LLMs (textual generative AI) to produce or modify content on Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Computer-generated content
, a draft of a proposed policy on using computer-generated content in general on Wikipedia
Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup
, a group of editors focusing on the issue of non-policy-compliant LLM-originated content
Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Tools
, a group of editors collaborating on tools using AI to improve Wikipedia
Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia spoken by AI voice
, proposed project to make natural-sounding audios available for articles at scale
Wikipedia:Bot
m:Research:Implications of ChatGPT for knowledge integrity on Wikipedia
, Wikimedia research project
m:Wikilegal/Copyright Analysis of ChatGPT
m:Category:Artificial intelligence
General
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Lih, Andrew (March 4, 2019).
"Combining AI and Human Judgment to Build Knowledge about Art on a Global Scale"
. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Davis, LiAnna
(2026-01-29).
"Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025"
Wiki Education
. Retrieved
2026-02-26
Includes a list of what it's good for and what it's not.
Wikimedia Foundation
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Morgan, Jonathan T. (18 July 2019).
"Designing ethically with AI: How Wikimedia can harness machine learning in a responsible and human-centered way"
. WIkimedia Foundation.
Redi, Miriam (14 March 2018).
"How we're using machine learning to visually enrich Wikidata"
. Wikimedia Foundation.
meta:Research:Ethical and human-centered AI
Demonstrations of generative AI using LLMs
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2025
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Signpost/2025-12-01 experiment
(identifying and correcting errors in 90% of 31 recent English Wikipedia 'Today's featured articles')
2024
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User:WeatherWriter/LLM Experiment 2
(identifying sourced and unsourced information, including a non-English source)
User:WeatherWriter/LLM Experiment 3
(identifying sourced and unsourced information, only six of seven tests successful)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ChatGPT
and
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Planet of the Apes
(humorous April Fools' nominations generated almost entirely by large language models).
2023
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User:JPxG/LLM demonstration 2
(suggestions for article improvement, explanations of unclear maintenance templates based on article text)
Artwork title
, a surviving article
initially
developed from raw LLM output (before this page had been developed)
User:Fuzheado/ChatGPT
(PyWikiBot code, writing from scratch, Wikidata parsing, CSV parsing)
User:DraconicDark/ChatGPT
(lead expansion)
Wikipedia:Using neural network language models on Wikipedia/Transcripts
(showcases actual mainspace LLM-assisted copyedits)
User:WeatherWriter/LLM Experiment 1
(identifying sourced and unsourced information)
2022
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User:JPxG/LLM demonstration
(wikitext markup, table rotation, reference analysis, article improvement suggestions, plot summarization, reference- and infobox-based expansion, proseline repair, uncited text tagging, table formatting and color schemes)
Misc
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Shit flow diagram
, an experiment in using a constrained set of data to write an article
clarification needed
User:BrokenSegue
Wikidata:Wwwyzzerdd
and
Psychiq
Wikidata game that uses distilBERT and ML, analyzing Wikipedia categories.
References
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"Copyright and Artificial Intelligence"
United States Copyright Office
. Retrieved
April 9,
2025
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