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Wikipedia prepares a plan to test the article summaries of AI. At the beginning of this month, the platform said that the mobile website plans to judge the feature for about 10 percent of visitors. It would be a frantic to say that they are not well received by the editors. Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed the plans later and canceled the test.
AI Summaries would appear at the top of articles for 10 percent of mobile users. The readers had to choose to see them. The AI summaries appeared in “the collection of articles” for the only two-week trial period.
WMF editor comments announcement (with 404 Media) “Throw with horror” from “Yuck”. “Google does not mean that we need each other because Google has spread the summary of the EU. This does not try it on mobile or anywhere.
“Wikipedia was a word for a sober drill on some roads, which is also excellent,” the editor continues. “Let’s join the sealed to spread the intelligence of our readers and spread flashy summaries.”
Editors’ traffic jams were not limited to thought. They also criticized the non-profit level to remove them from planning. “You also say this, which is thoroughly funny as ‘discussed’, ‘discussions’, you have an original poster with another WMF worker,” you have an original poster, the original poster. “
Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Shareed the following statement with Engadget:
“Wikimedia Foundation explores ways to prepare Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects Globally more accessible to readers on a scale. These two weeks, Opt-in experience, focused on preparation of complex Wikipedia articles that are more accessible to people Different reading levels. For the purposes of this experience, a total open weight was created by the Moon model. It was meant to measure interest in such a feature and think about the correct type of public moderation systems to ensure that people stay in Wikipedia to decide which information is shown.
Our usual process for these experiments include discussion of our volunteers (all data that generates and treat all the information about Wikipedia) to decide on construction properties and how to continue. Discussion around this feature is an example of this process, we have set a prototype of an idea and appealed to the Wikipedia volunteer for their thoughts.
It is common to get various opinions of the volunteers, and we combine it in our decisions and sometimes change the course. We welcome such a thoughtful opinion – This is what the Wikipedia continues to take a platform of human knowledge.
As shared Our latest duty On the Society’s discussion page, we do not have any plans to continue the experience at the moment, because at the moment we continue to discuss the opinions and discussions we receive from volunteers. write. “We’ve heard that those who read in previous studies will be a choice to get a quick information to a topic before jumping the full article.”
The organization did not rule out the future use of AI. But they said that the editors will not remain in the dark next time. “Bring the generative AI to Wikipedia reading experience, the significant set of decisions with important effects and intend to treat it,” said Press Secretary 404 Media. “We have no plans to bring a summary feature to Wikis without the participation of the editor.”
Update, 13, 2025, 12:52 pm et: This story was fixed to note that Wikipedia never started the AI summary test. The plan has been declared, but canceled before starting. A statement from the Wikimedia Foundation was added and the hood was updated.
