Re: AI agents editing Wikipedia?
Thiemo Kreuz via Wikitech-l <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:47:21 +0200
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Yea, https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform%C4%83_de_ofert%C4%83 is clearly AI assisted, obviously made by an advertisement company that gets paid to hide ads in Wikipedia. What especially sticks out are the footnotes. They are very equally spread across the article but none of the footnote has anything to do with the sentence it is attached to. Some of the footnotes are duplicated. A surprising amount of web links is broken. Most probably because they used an older AI model but the actual web pages changed since then. My guess is that this is not an AI agent but a human that pastes an AI generated article into VisualEditor. The best suggestion I have is to raise the barrier before new accounts can create new articles. But I'm not sure if the issue is big enough to justify this. Best Thiemo