Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
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Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…

this post is actually mostly good news; the bad news is that (1) LLMs exist and will continue to be used to edit Wikipedia, and (2) Wiki Education’s analysis and cleanup only covered articles created through their own programs, and (3) their system to use an LLM detector to screen new edits is only being applied to their own editors.