Volunteers across Africa are significantly contributing to the training of global Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems through their efforts on Wikipedia, ensuring AI tools and search engines have access to accurate information.

• Wikipedia's 65 million articles are viewed nearly 15 billion times monthly and serve as a crucial dataset for AI.
• Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, Maryana Iskander, highlighted that Wikipedia's content powers AI in ways few realize.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's AI strategy prioritizes human volunteers, with automated tools designed to support rather than replace human editors.