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What is the motivation for this? Why would someone write a bot to add content to wikipedia?
by retube 15y ago
What is the motivation for this? Why would someone write a bot to add content to wikipedia?
- redthrowaway 15y agoMost of them don't add content. They do maintenance work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Status
- T-hawk 15y agoAlso gray-to-black hat spam with links. Just like the content farms that plague Google's results, they'll push in any low-quality content in hopes of trolling some clicks to their ad- or malware-laden sites.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThese are pretty easy to spot, and they get banned very quickly.