Editing Building Successful Online Communities (Fall 2024)/Wikipedia Advising Report (section)

== Prompt ==

Members of the Wikipedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) are brainstorming approaches for using generative AI and large language models to create Wikipedia content. There is [[:Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Using neural network language models on Wikipedia|a page on Wikipedia about these ideas]] that might be useful to get a sense of what people are considering.

For this assignment, I want you to imagine that the WMF staff has contacted you seeking recommendations on managing the impact of generative AI tools on the Wikipedia online community. For context, the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mission WMF's mission] is:

:''The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.''

For this assignment, it's important to understand that the mission contains both a desire to produce high-quality educational material ''and'' a goal to engage people in its production.

Your job is to produce a short report (1500 words max) drawing on materials from this class to advise these leaders about how they ought to understand this challenge (generative AI) and how they might progress toward addressing its impact in their community. The best insights will draw on intelligent reflections on the themes and materials of this course to make concrete, specific, and sophisticated recommendations that carefully consider potential drawbacks and unintended consequences. You are welcome to evaluate the specific suggestions in [[:Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Using neural network language models on Wikipedia|the brainstorming page]] or suggest new approaches.

Please note: You do ''not'' need to draw on resources beyond the course materials (readings, lectures, assignments, case discussions, etc.) to produce your report. However, you may feel free to do so.