Using AI to Support Editors of Underrepresented Topics on Wikipedia

This workshop, facilitated by members of the Women in Religion User Group, explores the ethical, technical, and practical potential of using artificial intelligence to assist editors of underrepresented topics on English-language Wikipedia. We begin by reviewing the Wikimedia Foundation’s April 2025 strategy brief, “Artificial Intelligence for Editors.” Drawing on the experience of our user group, we will discuss ways of “supporting editors with AI” when editing articles about underrepresented areas. We will reflect on our efforts during the past two years to accelerate the production of stubs about notable women in religion using techniques such as retrieval augmented generation, synthetic data creation, and LLM fine-tuning. During our discussion, we will offer a series of pulse surveys to gauge participant sentiment about the employment of these techniques on and off Wiki. As an outcome of this workshop, we will publish our collective thoughts at our user group’s Meta page with the hope of charting a path for using AI responsibly to address knowledge gaps on Wikipedia.

Oct 18, 2025 12:00 AM — 1:00 AM

WikiConference North America 2025