Re: Usage of LLM/AI coding assistants in Wikimedia projects

Svetlana Tkachenko via Wikitech-l <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:28:16 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Novem Linguae

> Anyway, I've taken a stab at documenting some of this by creating the 
> page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Using_AI_in_MediaWiki_patches just 
> now. Feel free to edit.

I would suggest REQUIRING that users MUST tick a "I used AI to write this code" box if this was the case, at time of upload of their patch. This may help the reviewer to prioritise the search of hallucinations in the code provided.

Sveta