Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A small note of explanation is OK, but please do not sign it – this isn't a talk page. This is for articles or redirects that really existed on Wikipedia which have been deleted – provide proof of the deletion if you can, generally in the form of an XFD discussion page (AFD debates can be quite humorous themselves) or deletion log entry (for articles deleted before December 2004; see also ...
The most well-known bot that fights vandalism is ClueBot NG. The bot was created by Wikipedia users Christopher Breneman and Naomi Amethyst in 2010 (succeeding the original ClueBot created in 2007; NG stands for Next Generation) [9] and uses machine learning and Bayesian statistics to determine if an edit is vandalism.
Even if someone does, admins can still see your vandalism edit. Even if oversighters oversight your vandalism edit, they can still see the edit. If you continue vandalizing (and yes, you can!), you will be left with more ugly messages, and eventually a big fat ugly message telling you that you are unable to edit Wikipedia. If you try to click ...
On Wikipedia, vandalism has a very specific meaning: editing (or other behavior) deliberately intended to obstruct or defeat the project's purpose, which is to create a free encyclopedia, in a variety of languages, presenting the sum of all human knowledge.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Making an edit following vandalism that says "remove vandalism" in the edit summary, so others will believe the vandalism has been reverted; Use of multiple accounts to hide vandalism Making a good edit with one account following vandalism with another; Making good-faith edits that happen to go unnoticed, even if they fit a minority viewpoint
The best-known bot, ClueBot NG instead applies machine learning algorithms to a dataset of known good/bad edits, but even these catch only about 40% of all vandalism (that we know about). And since these tools only patrol new edits, they cannot find vandalism that already exists. Vandalism can also be obscured by well-meaning editors:
This gallery includes Userbox templates about the prevention of vandalism and damage to Wikipedia. You may place any of these userboxes on your user page. Some of ...