Agreed, my policy includes:

> Basically, you should be able to understand, explain, and justify any
code that an AI tool contributes to your PR.

Cheers,
-Travis

On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 6:20 PM Brian Wolff via Wikitech-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm of the opinion if people can tell you are using an LLM you are using
> it wrong. Its still expected that you fully understand any patch you
> submit. I think if you use an LLM to help you nobody would complain or
> really notice, but if you blindly submit an LLM authored patch without
> understanding how it works people will get frustrated with you very quickly.
>
> --
> Brian
>
> On Sunday, 25 January 2026, Travis Briggs via Wikitech-l <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know there's been a lot of discussion/concern and policy decisions
>> around usage of LLMs for authoring content in Wikimedia projects.
>>
>> I wonder if there's been similar discussion around AI coding for
>> technical editors? I'm not sure I've seen it "go by". Can someone link to
>> where these discussions are happening?
>>
>> I also wanted to share a policy I wrote for WP1:
>> https://github.com/openzim/wp1/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#usage-of-llmsai-coding-assistants
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Travis
>>
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