https://blog.johl.io/blog/knowledgeproduction/ Recent content in knowledgeproduction on My heart is a Turing machine: A blog by Jens Ohlig Hugo en-US <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img style="display:center;border-width:0" class="display-centered" alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" property="dct:title">This blog and everything on it</span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="https://johl.io/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Jens Ohlig</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.johl.io/the-owl-and-the-bat/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.johl.io/the-owl-and-the-bat/ <h2 id="knowledge-production-on-wikimedia-projects-with-artificial-intelligence-whatever-that-means">Knowledge Production on Wikimedia Projects with Artificial Intelligence (whatever that means)</h2> <p>There&rsquo;s no doubt that what we refer to as &ldquo;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo; is changing knowledge production. English Wikipedia has recently adopted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models">a policy</a> which prohibits the use of Large Language Models to generate or rewrite article content. A little before that, German Wikipedia started a Request for Comment discussion on a <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/KI-Verbot">comparable policy</a>. We typically don&rsquo;t see everything AI in 2026 as a field in computer science research, but in a context of exploitative business practices that &ndash; among other effects on the real world &mdash;put <a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/">considerable strains on Wikimedia&rsquo;s infrastructure</a> and thus the Knowledge Commons.</p>