Re: Is it okay to remove half of FlightGear wiki to make it easier to process by AI?

"Frederic T." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.flightgear.devel
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Oh okay, good :)

Am Mo., 10. Aug. 2026 um 10:31 Uhr schrieb Gijs de Rooy <
[email protected]>:

> Hi all,
>
> First of all, I was enjoying a pleasant weekend offline, far from any AI.
> Can strongly recommend.
>
> While I did notice some of this person's edits, I didn't realize the
> extent of edits. A lot of the edits seemed legitimate and actual
> improvements (removing clearly obsolete information, fixing links, or
> improving texts). However, it seems like a lot of blunt unchecked edits
> have also crept through now and the AI was over-used for mass-edits.
> Reverting all these edits is not easily doable (e.g. an undo all edits by
> users x y and z), because there have been follow-up edits by others. I'll
> need some time to find out how we can best cleanup all of this while
> keeping the good edits. For now I've blocked the user's accounts from
> editing until we've found a way forward.
>
> In line with what's been said before I agree that LLMs can be useful for
> textual edits (spell checks, fixing broken links etc), but should be used
> sparsely (if at all) for actual content editing at this scale.
>
> Why do we only have 1 wiki moderator ?
>
> We don't. There are a bunch of others besides me. See
> https://wiki.flightgear.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&group=sysop
>
> Gijs
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