Join Wikimedia Enterprise at the February seminar of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence! The Stanford HAI Institute offers a front-row seat to some of the most pressing questions in AI today, covering how AI systems are built and how they interact with society at scale.
- Topic: Wikipedia in the Age of AI and Bots
- When: 4th of February 2026, Noon to 1:15pm PST
- Where: Room 119, 353 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford Campus
- Register to join online or in person (free of charge)
For 25 years, Wikipedia has been a foundational source of text data for natural language processing and machine learning. Its openly licensed content has powered much of the education, innovation, and research across academia and industry. With the rise of LLMs this data consumption has increased. Wikipedia is now facing rapidly changing traffic patterns driven not only by human readers but increasingly by large-scale automated access.
In this talk, we cover how we’re facing these changes while also safeguarding the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation. Some of the topics to be covered include how Wikipedia is acting and reacting in the age of bots and large-scale scraping of the web, how this causes issues for the Wikimedia Foundation infrastructure, and how these changes in traffic behavior affect the mission. Maintaining the sustainability of the platform and prioritizing human access first has required nuanced approaches to identifying and responding to these observed changes as AI and LLMs have changed human behavior over the past two years.
Join us to learn how data science and computer scientists can help foster the health of what has been agreed on as an essential public good in the age of AI. Specific focus will be put on outlining how researchers and academics work together with the Wikimedia Foundation as AI/ML becomes more mature, so together we can foster the responsible re-use of Wikipedia content.
Come back to this page after the 4th of February to learn more about our takeaways and learnings from the event.
– The Wikimedia Enterprise Team
Photo Credits
Views of Stanford University campus from Hoover Tower by GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
