During this year's Wikimania scholarship review process, reviewers noticed that some applications used artificial intelligence (e.g. ChatGPT) to answer scholarship questions.

This raises many questions:
Is it acceptable to use AI to answer these questions? Where do we draw the line for using it? Are AI-generated response considered to be genuine? Why do the applicants think they need to use this tool? Will it create an arms race between those who use and those who don't? Will it create an uneven playing field between applicants who can afford to pay to use paid-version of AI and those who cannot pay and have to use the free version?

In this panel discussion, we have representatives who reviewed scholarships from different regions to share their thoughts on the use of AI tools to answer Wikimania scholarship questions.

This session will reflect on the methods used to address language preservation imperatives in South Africa. The focus of this session is to share about a collaborative project, SWiP, that brought together partners (including Wikimedia South Africa) that share a common goal in the promotion of the preservation of local languages.

The idea of this session is to practically show the methods that the South African Chapter used to improve the representation of languages on Wikipedia with the view of empowering other affiliates who may want to replicate this kind of initiative in their own regions.