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Yikes! This has been a revelation. I had never realized that such a large portion of the edits are malevolent. Within the first couple of minutes of using it, I
by lake99 13y ago
Yikes! This has been a revelation. I had never realized that such a large portion of the edits are malevolent. Within the first couple of minutes of using it, I saw someone replace a useful citation URL by a link to Facebook, a few instances of people inserting random words, etc.
I wonder if Wikipedia has an automated way of dealing with this.
- ekr 13y agoIt has some kind of anti-spam bots (and other uses). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
- simonw 13y agoIt does - Wikipedia has a small army of bots which monitor and in some cases automatically revert changes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots Here are changes made by one of the most active anti-vandalism bots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ClueBot_NG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/ClueBot_N...
- tekacs 13y agoTo be fair, given that this only shows unregistered edits, the proportion of malevolent edits seems... unsurprising?