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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.
John Seigenthaler, an American journalist, was the subject of a defamatory Wikipedia hoax article in May 2005. The hoax raised questions about the reliability of Wikipedia and other websites with user-generated content. Since the launch of Wikipedia in 2001, the site has faced several controversies. Wikipedia's open-editing model, under which anyone can edit most articles, has led to concerns ...
Vandalism that is harder to spot, or that otherwise circumvents detection, including adding plausible misinformation to articles (such as minor alteration of facts or additions of plausible-sounding hoaxes), hiding vandalism (such as by making two bad edits and reverting only one), simultaneously using multiple accounts or IP addresses to ...
On Wikipedia, vandalism in simple terms is defined as deliberate malicious editing.There are many different ways in which Wikipedia is vandalized. These include additions, removals, and modifications that cause intentional harm to the content of the encyclopedia.
Despite the community's attempts to deny them personal attention, Wikipedia's anti-vandalism process starts to act as a positive reinforcer, providing them with something to react against to keep their battle going. The vandal begins to see their vandalism activity as part of themselves, something precious, to be defended by any means possible.
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:
Wikipedia: Study of article statistics by Opabinia regalis (2007-2-18) Wikipedia: Study of the ratio of IP-based vandalism to signed in user vandalism by Cool3 (2006-10-2) Wikipedia: Study of vandalism on individual's user page by Angela (2007-3-29) Wikipedia: Study of vandalism to featured articles by Colonel Chaos (2007-5-1)
This category contains pages related to vandalism and other unconstructive editing on Wikipedia, including pages about how to deal with vandalism. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.