Wikipedia AI is supporting a plan to test summary. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to test this feature for 10 % of the mobile web visitors. To say that they were not well received by the editors. Then the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) changed the projects and canceled the test.
AI summary appears in the upper part of the articles for 10 % of mobile users. Readers had to choose to see them. AI-Infiltration Summary only appeared on a “set of articles” for a two-week trial period.
Editor’s comments in WMF announcement (through 404 Media) From “one” to “smiles from horror”. An editor wrote, “Just because Google has eliminated its AI’s abstract, it does not mean that we need to make them unit. I sincerely ask you not to test it at a mobile or elsewhere. It will cause immediate and unprofessional damage to our readers and it will be reliable and reliable.
The editor added, “Wikipedia has become a word for simple boring pin, which is excellent.” “Let’s not insult your readers’ intelligence and join in to eliminate the fast AI summary.”
This screenshot of 404 media depicts another version of the AI infield summary on the Wikipedia page. The planned test appears only on the site’s mobile web version. (Vikimidia Foundation)
The grip of the editors was not limited to this idea. He also criticized the removal of non -profit from the planning phase. An editor wrote, “You also say that it has been ‘discussed’, which is fully capable of laughing because the ‘debate’ with which you link is a partner, the original poster, the other WMF employee, written by an editor.
The spokesperson of the Vikimedia Foundation shared the following statement with the Anggate:
“The Vikimedia Foundation is looking for wikipedia and other Vikimidia projects More accessible for readers globally. This two weeks, the opt -in experience was focused on making complex Bitcoin articles more accessible to people Different levels of reading. For the purposes of this experiment, the summary was developed by the open -weight IA model by Koheer. The purpose was to assess interest in such a feature, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation system to ensure that humans have been shown on Wikipedia.
These experiments include talking to volunteers in our usual process (which creates and supports all the information related to Wikipedia) to make decisions about moving forward with the characteristics of the building. The debate around this feature is an example of the process, where we developed a prototype of an idea and reached the Wikipedia voluntary community for their ideas.
It is common to receive numerous feedback from volunteers, and we add it to our decisions, and sometimes change the course. We welcome such anxious opinions. This is the thing that makes Wikipedia a really mutual cooperation platform.
As is joint Our latest post On the community discussion page, we have no plans to continue the experience at the moment, as we keep guessing and exchanging the impressions we have already received from the volunteers. In the “” debate “page, the organization explained that it wants to meet the needs of its audience.” Many readers also need some easy text besides main content, “a WMF employee,” a WMF employee, “a WMF employee,” a WMF employee Is written. “In the previous research, we have heard that readers want to get the option to take a quick review of a topic before jumping into the whole article.”
The organization did not reject AI’s future use. But he said the editors would not be left in the dark the next time. The spokesperson said, “Lana Lana, with important implications in the reading experience of Wikipedia, is a serious set of decisions, and we intend to treat it with it.” 404 Media. “We have no plans to bring a summary feature to the wiki without the editor’s involvement.”
Update, June 13, 2025, 12:52 pm et: It has been corrected to note that Wikipedia has never started its AI summary test. The project was announced, but was canceled before it was. A statement from the Vikimedia Foundation has also been added, and the headline has also been updated.
