Can You Create a Wikipedia Page with AI?

AI content is ascendant. Any sort of stigmatization against it is fading as the technology gets better and as undetectable services begin offering better writing without any fears of getting caught by search engines or academics.

That said, professionals of all sorts are using generativeAI tools to write their emails, webcopy, writing for e-commerce, blogs, and more. One area where more people ought to be using AI generated content though, is the many Wiki pages people read to learn about a person or topic.

Table of Contents

• Can ChatGPT Write a Wikipedia Article?

• Is AI Allowed on Wikipedia?

• Using Undetectable AI for Wikipedia

• Conclusion

Can ChatGPT Write a Wikipedia Article?

ChatGPT is very capable of generating articles built to Wikipedia’s specific format. Simply giving it the right prompt with context, task, and format spelled out for the chatbot, you can get an article that is acceptable for publishing after some review.

I say after some review because some inconsistencies are still possible when dealing with your standard AI model. ChatGPT is prone to generating AI hallucinations which can lead to misinformation in the article or improper citations. In this respect, human editors still have an edge over large language models.

However, given it takes OpenAI’s GPT less than a minute to create the wikipedia page’s text complete with full automation of research, summarization of supplemental material, formatted citation of reliable sources, SEO keywords, and more, perhaps it’s good to start with ChatGPT as your template then edit it to your liking.

Is AI Allowed on Wikipedia?

AI isn’t just allowed for Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, its clearly stated in Wikipedia’s policy to be fully integrated into the writing and editing the site. Before AI, human editors were using bots to edit and update pages. Bots that were able to make automatic changes, but were unable to think and reason like an AI can. here’s the wikitext taken directly from Wikipedia’s guidelines:

“The explosion of interest in ChatGPT in 2022 has led to increased curiosity in using generative AI to help compose Wikipedia articles. The status of machine-generated text from tools such as ChatGPT is generally accepted to be public domain, so the copyright issues are not a blocker to using the generated text from a legal standpoint. These issues are generally governed by Help:Adding open license text to Wikipedia#Converting and adding open license text to Wikipedia, which advises to make sure content is adjusted for style and that reliable sources are used. Conversations on the Village Pump and in some test articles (i.e. Artwork title) have noted positive aspects of machine generated text, but a serious warning that content must be checked for facts and accuracy and never used straight from ChatGPT.”

It’s almost as if Wikipedia editors are encouraging content creation with AI. Still though, search engines have other policies that may hinder your Wikipedia page from appearing in searches if those engines recognize AI text in your page.

The only way to bypass this issue and AI detectors in general, is by using an undetectable AI writing software instead of ChatGPT for high-quality text.

Using Undetectable AI for Wikipedia

In order to make sure your own wikipedia pages don’t get deranked by search engines for AI detection, content creators need to use undetectable AI services. These services are trained on machine learning from massive datasets on human writing to understand the complexity and naturalness of how humans write.

Traditional artificial intelligence tools write for precision and utility, but aren’t adept for writing text with style and readable, which is what readers prefers, especially in Wikipedia summaries. Undetectable AI services can either transform text from ChatGPT into humanized AI generated content, or create the humanized text from scratch. Better tools can include features like Search engine optimization and accurate in-text citations in their content generation process, giving users everything they need to build a successful Wikipedia page.

Conclusion

AI is used by content creators and human editors alike for Wikipedia and Wikimedia. Given the popularity for those tools on their platform, one should consider hopping on the bandwagon and finishing your work in minutes as opposed to hours.

Whether using AI content as your final draft or template, there is a good function for AI when drafting webpages or articles of any kind. Just remember, the success of any article hinges on how useful it is and how authentic it is. Before you publish, make sure the writing is human and high quality and to fact check the article for misinformation and AI hallucinations.