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Can't spammers also use machine learning, or maybe I misunderstood something.

• zellyn 11y ago
  What I meant is that I expect a huge initial win, as this catches 80-90% of spammy edits, until the spammers figure out how to get around it. Hopefully the constant stream of human-created training data (in the form of reverted or non-reverted edits) helps with this. But undoubtedly there will need to be some continual feature engineering to stay ahead.
  • halfak_wmf 11y ago
    Yeah. We're actively working with patrollers to chase down mistakes and retrain the models. This is a system that will require continual improvement. Luckily, there's a lot of researchers working on this problem so we're drawing from a lot of brilliance beyond our little team at the Wikimedia Foundation.