Overview

• The Wikimedia Foundation had planned a two-week, opt-in trial of AI summaries for 10% of mobile users before halting the test.
• Volunteer editors warned that machine-generated summaries could undermine article accuracy and damage Wikipedia’s reputation.
• Draft summaries would have appeared at the top of articles with a yellow “unverified” label to signal their AI origin.
• Some contributors likened the proposal to Google AI Overviews and cautioned that it might elevate AI content above human-curated text.
• The Foundation pledged to involve the editor community in shaping any future deployment of generative AI tools on Wikipedia.