Artificial intelligence/2026 Wiki AI

Did you know ...

... how long it takes to build a working wiki tool with AI?
... how many citations in the average article don't actually check out?
... how well AI can fight AI slop and vandalism?

Come find out at the Wiki AI Pre-Conference, a full day on 21 July 2026, part of Wikimania in Paris - hands-on with the tools, and the people building them (register).

Full schedule

9:30 Welcome – SJ Klein
9:40 Keynote – Mark Graham (Internet Archive)
10:15 Productive Coexistence (workshop) – Hay Kranen
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Sociotechnical challenges in information verifiability - Elena Simperl
11:40 Wikigame – spot the AI errors
11:50 Building Wiki Tools with AI – Andrew Lih
13:00 🥗 L U N C H 🥪
14:20 Internet Archive Europe: 250 million candidate citations for Wikipedia – Daniel Erasmus, IA Europe
14:30 Editing Suggestions - Sucheta Salgaonkar
14:40 Fact-checking at scale - Source Verifier demo & panel, Simperl lab, Kevin Payravi, Alex Ostrovsky Hybrid
15:10 From Hope to Mistrust - AI hypotheses at the Futures Lab, Eva Martin
15:40 "What Would It Take?" – Netha Hussain
16:15 Towards a sensible AI policy on Wikimedia Commons, Abzeronow
16:30 Coffee break
16:45 AIlog - fighting AI slop, Fermiboson Hybrid
17:00 WikiShield - fighting vandalism (remote) Hybrid
17:20 AI for visualising data, Galder Gonzalez
17:35 Small Wikis lightning talks – Micheal Kaluba/Will Ssemmanda & Dev Jadiya
18:00 Builder tables – Netha Hussain, Houcemeddine Turki, Britta Gustafson, Andrew Lih - until 19:00

Threads

Community & Culture

9:30 Opening, SJ Klein
9:40 Keynote, Mark Graham (Internet Archive)
10:15 Productive Coexistence (workshop), Hay Kranen
15:10 From Hope to Mistrust: AI hypotheses at the Futures Lab, Eva Martin
16:15 Towards a sensible AI policy on Wikimedia Commons, Abzeronow
17:35 Small Wikis lightning talks, Micheal Kaluba/Will Ssemmanda & Dev Jadiya

Building with AI

11:50 Building Wiki Tools with AI, Andrew Lih
15:40 "What Would It Take?", Netha Hussain
17:20 AI for visualising data, Galder Gonzalez
18:00 Builder tables, Netha Hussain, Houcemeddine Turki, Britta Gustafson, Andrew Lih

Tools for Reliability & Defense

Three demos run hybrid - Source Verifier, AIlog and WikiShield are joinable online.
11:30 Sociotechnical challenges in information verifiability, Elena Simperl
11:40 Wikigame - spot the AI errors
14:20 Internet Archive Europe: 250 million candidate citations for Wikipedia, Daniel Erasmus
14:30 Fact-checking at scale: Source Verifier demo & panel, Kevin Payravi, Sucheta Salgaonkar (WMF), Alex Ostrovsky
16:45 AIlog - fighting AI slop, Fermiboson
17:00 WikiShield - fighting vandalism

Who should come?

Editors, tool builders and researchers who want a say in how AI shapes Wikimedia projects and open knowledge. No technical experience necessary. Here's the registration link. If you have Wikimania tickets, you can just drop by but consider registering anyway - it will help us understand how many attendees will be at the event.

Full day event on July 21. A Wiki AI Fringe event at a nearby venue is planned for July 22-24 (Wednesday-Friday) for related demos and unconference space. Contact: talk page · email