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This Month in Education: July 2026

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September 2026

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Information icon There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:AI noticeboard regarding an AI cleanup investigation which may be related to you. The thread is University of Sydney course mass AI use across at least two years. Fermiboson (talk) 16:42, 11 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Fransplace, in the year since you last ran your course, the English Wikipedia passed WP:NOLLM which prohibits the use of large language models to generate article content. It is imperative that this prohibition is included in your teaching, otherwise your students may have an uncomfortable experience on Wikipedia. —ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email) 05:00, 12 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Fransplace, in case you don't know about it, you and your students should read WP:ASSIGN. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:47, 13 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, Tryptofish (talk). We do follow the Wikipedia Education Foundation program instruction books. The course was set up with the books Students created a user page, adding a sentence about themselves in week 1. They are learning about adding images to Wikimedia Commons this week (Week 7 Visual Media: Finding and adding and visual media legitimately) and will upload something before next Monday. Last week students were asked to work on changes to certain articles with banners requiring, for example, additional citations and other minor things. This seems to be the activity that has gotten us into trouble, with some students doing much more than what was asked.The remaining suggestions in the book are covered in the next few weeks. Students are not to make any more edits to the mainspace until our final weeks. In the meantime, they are learning about more aspects of articles and researching and writing sections to add to existing Stub articles in the final week. In the menatime, they upload a Word version (week 9). They peer review each others' drafts and their instructions provide feedback. They continue to learn about improving articles, with infoboxes and but they only write in word docs. They are taught to consult categories and project pages connected to the stup articles they are interested in to make sure their work coheres with style and recommended sections. Final changes are only added to Wikipedia after 31 October and reflections take place the week after. Fransplace... Let's talk 02:31, 18 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, again, ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email). We had an 18 month break between running the course so thank you! It happens that we prohibited even last year but I see that Fermiboson (talk) picked up our students from last year too for possible LLM use. This has shocked us but we're working through what students did and didn't do. In all of the cases, we ask students to keep drafts of everything they do and last week was the first time since creating their Wikipedia IDs that they were allowed to add changes (but only minor ones like citations). We're working through the list that Fermiboson (talk) added to the noticeboard. Thank you, again. Fransplace... Let's talk 21:06, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the updates! I know some of the reports might have been somewhat harsh, but this comes from the exponential growth in AI slop over the last few years which takes an immense effort to clean up. That's why we want to make sure slop doesn't get into Wikipedia to begin with.
It looks as if you're mostly coming here to edit around the times of year when you run the course. I do recommend sticking around throughout the year, if for no other reason than to keep up-to-date with policy changes. You can watch the Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) and Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) for major discussions, WP:CENTRAL for notices of these and other discussions, and the top of your Watchlist for very important updates.
Finally, if you want to reply to someone or mention them in a comment, the template {{reply to}} exists for exactly this purpose. I'm not sure what method you're currently using to mention other users, but it's copying whole signatures (instead of just usernames), which can get distracting. —ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email) 22:22, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
Hi Fermiboson (talk). Thank you for checking in with me. We had a prohibition on students using AI for anything more than checking grammar and spelling. Unfortunately, the students write well and the university doesn't have a tool for checking LLM use. Students' drafts (on Word) are put though Turnitin (that old thing) but we are humanities academics and don't have the expertise to pick up LLM use. I'm really happy that Wikipedia has decided to outlaw LLM use now and we want this to be our norm too. Fransplace... Let's talk 21:00, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
And just picking up on this comment, you mat be interested to know that Wikipedia also uses Turnitin to identify possible plagiarism and copyright violations, but it doesn't look for AI-generated text. There are a few "AI detectors" that you might see mentioned, but there is no substitute for human judgment. I would argue that humanities academics, especially teachers of writing, already have the skills and intuition needed to become good at spotting machine-generated text. Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing is a living document that has been kept updated as LLM trends have shifted over the years. If you read this guide and peruse the AI noticeboard, I think you will soon get a feel for the kinds of problematic writing we are seeing today. —ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email) 22:33, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply
In fact, the WikiEd program does use a tool to monitor all of their student edits for AI usage. However, WikiEd isn't available to institutions in Australia. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:10, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Happy First Edit Day!

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Hey, Fransplace. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! ☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 00:07, 14 September 2026 (UTC)Reply		 
☘︎☘︎☘︎ALEXHammeke (talk | guestbook | sandbox) 00:07, 14 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Happy First Edit Day, Fransplace!

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Happy First Edit Day To You! Happy First Edit Day To You! Happy First Edit Day, @Fransplace! Happy First Edit Day To You!

A duck for you! In addition, Lassi!

 A glass of Lassi for you
Here is a glass of Lassi for you. Lassi is a traditional Indian dahi (yogurt) based drink.
Thank you.

Cheers, (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠) Zahrazamedahmedi (🗨️My Talk Page🗨️) (🫗My Mistakes🫗) 01:51, 14 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

For more Indian dishes, visit the Kitchen of WikiProject India.

Happy editing and have a happy first edit day! 🥳 Cheers, (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠) Zahrazamedahmedi (🗨️My Talk Page🗨️) (🫗My Mistakes🫗) 01:51, 14 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Happy First Edit Day!

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This Month in Education: September 2026

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New cross-language page link: Slave Labour (mural)

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A new page 노예 노동 on the Korean Wikipedia has been linked to the page Slave Labour (mural), which you created, via Wikidata (Q5829280).

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This Month in Education: October 2026

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A cupcake for you!

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Hi! Here is a cupcake for you! 🧁 I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Keep up the great work! Syan1501 (talk) 04:51, 5 November 2026 (UTC)Reply
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