Chatbots

There are various projects in place to enable chatbots that can answer natural-language questions based on the contents of one or more MediaWiki installations - both for smaller wikis and for massive, general-knowledge wikis such as Wikipedia and Wikidata. (In some cases, the projects cover tasks in addition to answering questions, such as performing edits.)

Here are some of the current projects that deliver such functionality.

For any MediaWiki-based wiki

• Chatbot MediaWiki extension
• Juggel - a chat platform (created by the company of the same name) that can make use of data from a variety of sources, including MediaWiki
• KZChatbot - a MediaWiki extension that provides a chatbot based on the wiki's content, in conjunction with an LLM/RAG backend (see documentation, in Hebrew), as well as the extension ChatbotRagContent (to interface with the RAG) and the React app KZChatbot (to handle the display)

For specific wikis

• SPINACH Wikidata Agent - creates a Wikidata SPARQL query to answer users' questions, then gives a natural-language response based on the query result. This same technology also powers the on-Wikidata SpinachBot; paper
• WikiChat, chatbot that can answer questions with information from Wikipedia articles of many languages with links to these articles; almost never hallucinates; paper
• AskWikidata - a simple chatbot for Wikidata
• WikiChat - a chatbot available to wikis hosted with MyWikis
• Wikipedia ChatGPT plugin - not its own chatbot, but a plugin to a very well-known chatbot, ChatGPT

Unreleased projects

The following are discussions about other attempts at creating MediaWiki-based chatbots, whose output has not yet been released:

• "Hey Wiki!", talk by Alexander Gesinn of Gesinn.it, SMWCon Fall 2023
• "Natural language interaction with a wiki", talk by Markus Glaser of Hallo Welt!, SMWCon Fall 2023