Wikimania 2025

Carol Mwaura

.Carol currently Co-Leads Wikimedia User Group Kenya where she champions for access, contribution of open free knowledge and championing the closing of gender gap on Wikipedia.Lead on projects that advocate for open knowledge and digital literacy through Wikipedia training and strategic partnership, for example Wikifor Human Rights, Art & Feminism. Participant in GLAM and WikiLibrarians communities on Wikipedia.


Session

08-08
09:30
55min
How we can handle Wikimania scholarship applications with the invasion of AI?
Andrew Leung, Herschal Jackson (WMZA), Carol Mwaura, Donatien Kangah

🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/ENVArTyCwfE?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfLPVASK2MANk6wSHgWmbULz&t=1370 🎥

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.

Technology
KISUMU (🗣️ ar, es, fr, sw)