Wikimedia Foundation Grants AI Access To Wikipedia Content

On January 15, the Wikimedia Foundation announced partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity to give large language models access to Wikimedia projects across 350+ languages, Wikibooks, and Wiktionary. Regional-language volunteer editors now face increased responsibility to curate and counter AI-generated misinformation; volunteers have flagged over 4,800 suspected AI articles since 2024 and a Princeton study found 5% of new English pages contained AI text.