AI for Editors - A strategy brief

The community of volunteers is the most important and unique element of success behind Wikipedia – a leading example of encyclopedic knowledge governance around the world. For over a decade the community and Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) have developed and used artificial intelligence (AI) to power bots, products, and features. The dual forces of recent advances in AI and the increasing challenges of moderating a complex knowledge ecosystem motivated us to develop a strategy to further leverage AI’s potential and mitigate its risks on the projects. This strategy focuses on using AI to enhance the work of editors in areas that AI can have the highest impact in the projects: by automating routine and repetitive tasks that do not require human judgment or discussions, onboarding and mentorship of new editors, opening time for editors to focus on local and specialized encyclopedic knowledge across languages, and prioritizing the safeguarding of knowledge integrity, all while preserving human agency. By significantly and purposefully supporting editors’ work with AI in these areas, this strategy aims to maintain and enhance Wikipedia’s position as a trusted source of knowledge, driven by the community for generations to come.

志愿者社群是维基百科（Wikipedia）取得成功的核心且独一无二的关键要素——维基百科本身便是全球百科全书式知识治理的标杆范例。十余年来，该社群与维基媒体基金会（Wikimedia Foundation，WMF）始终依托人工智能（Artificial Intelligence，AI）开发并驱动机器人程序（bots）、相关产品与功能。近期人工智能技术的飞速进步，与复杂知识生态系统的审核治理挑战日益严峻，这两大动因促使我们制定专项战略，以进一步释放人工智能的潜力，同时降低其在各维基项目中带来的潜在风险。本战略聚焦于人工智能可发挥最大效用的领域，助力编辑者的工作：自动化处理无需人类判断或讨论的常规重复性任务；为新编辑者提供入门引导与培养帮扶；腾出更多时间，让编辑者能够专注于跨语言的本土化与专业化百科知识内容建设；并将保障知识完整性置于优先地位，同时始终保留人类的自主主导权。通过在上述领域有针对性地借助人工智能大力支持编辑者的工作，本战略旨在维护并强化维基百科作为可信知识来源的地位，让这一由社群驱动的平台能够永续传承、惠及后世。