On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 10:36 AM Gerard Meijssen via Wikimedia-l < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Gerard, ChatGPT alone has over a billion monthly active users and these platforms are growing rapidly (note the survey data I linked to previously in thread). Everything Wikimedia does has a CO2 emissions cost. We are not carbon neutral today as far as I am aware, though I would bet many of us would agree that is a goal worth pursuing. Steven > On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 at 19:30, Steven Walling via Wikimedia-l < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM Erik Moeller via Wikimedia-l < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >>> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> Public archives at >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/HNDPDZBBDMILF7WGMUBVJVIAZYQ7OXOS/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> > Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/IUDAKJRN5EQT5CCWEEYQXKDSVXCDBXR6/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/N7LFQLLPT6BSANTYFYPXHHQ6XYQX76GA/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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