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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
Content creation and rewrites
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
Other policies and guidelines contain certain provisions that are specifically about AI-generated content. As of March 2026, they are as follows:
Additional resources
The following are not policies or guidelines, but still have some significance in this context:
Discussion timeline
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AI-related efforts on Wikipedia include but are not limited to:
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.
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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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.
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
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
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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Demonstrations of generative AI using LLMs
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Signpost/2025-12-01 experiment (identifying and correcting errors in 90% of 31 recent English Wikipedia 'Today's featured articles')
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).
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)
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)
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.
- ^ "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence". United States Copyright Office. Retrieved April 9, 2025.
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