Hoi,
How does that raise more eyeballs to our data, to our projects. Why would
we build this to serve companies that raise CO2 with 35%?
Why support AI at all when it is killing our future!
Thanks,
GerardM
On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 at 19:30, Steven Walling via Wikimedia-l <
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM Erik Moeller via Wikimedia-l <
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>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM James Heilman via Wikimedia-l
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Yah a search engine that actually gives real references that supports
>> the statements in question would be amazing.
>>
>> Almost like .. a Knowledge Engine. ;-)
>>
>
> Is the WMF building an MCP server to connect Wikipedia and Wikidata
> directly to Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT? This is a more lightweight,
> backdoor way to leverage the audience of those platforms but present
> structured outputs to AI chats for users based on Wikimedia knowledge. If
> we did so, we could present citations within the returned responses to
> users, and those platforms make it transparent to the user when they are
> calling a particular tool.
>
> Steven Walling
>
> Sadly, the only realistic path I see there would be through
>> acquisition, and even if that was financially feasible, you'd begin by
>> inheriting a lot of corporate practices that aren't really consistent
>> with Wikimedia values.
>>
>> But perhaps there is a middle ground where Wikimedia seeks to define
>> more clearly the terms of engagement that it wants with search engines
>> (clear attribution, clear and correct references, calls-to-edit,
>> etc.), and then finds and recognizes search partners who implement
>> those. To Luis' point, that need not be done by WMF.
>>
>> Warmly,
>>
>> Erik
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