Re: AI agents editing Wikipedia?

În mie., 15 apr. 2026 la 18:01, Thiemo Kreuz via Wikitech-l <
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> Hard to tell without at least one example. Can you please provide one?
>

>From the responses so far, it seems we have detected mostly accounts doing
this multiple times. What I see is a pattern where multiple users write
various (possibly promotional) articles. For instance, search for "surse"
in https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Pagini_noi - you will find 6 such
cases in the last 30 days on rowiki (+2 using synonyms). Only one user (
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contribu%C8%9Bii/Disambiguati ) has a
series of such edit summaries.

Strainu


>
> Yes, I did hear a few vague suggestions that this is indeed happening.
> Unfortunately I don't have sources I can point you to.
>
> Personally I totally expect AI agents to not use the API (that would
> be the more responsible approach, which is not how AI agents behave)
> but try to reenact human behavior via the VisualEditor interface.
>
> No, I don't think there is a good technical solution to detect such
> edits other than looking at the accounts, when they have been created,
> and how they behave.
>
> Best
> Thiemo
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