Setting out to discover more about precisely who edits Wikipedia, Steiner created an open-source program that monitors the stream of changes made to the online, crowdsourced encyclopedia, and can ...

Revision wars on Wikipedia amongst human editors is an all-too-common occurrence, but new research from the UK shows that similar online battles are being waged between the site’s software robots. As ...

One of the most infamous Wikipedia wars took place in 2013, when human editors on the site wrote more than 40,000 words over two months arguing whether the film Star Trek Into Darkness should have a ...

The idea behind Wikipedia is, let’s face it, crazy. An online encyclopedia full of verifiable information, ideally with minimal bias, that can be freely edited by anyone with an internet connection is ...

Mainstream media has been swirling with stories about the recently created @congressedits Twitter bot, ranging from hilarious pokes at congressional staffers’ taste in ice cream to the scandalous and ...

Half of all edits to Wikipedia are made by bots. That stat, from a new study monitoring the site's revisions, might seem like cause for alarm. But according to Wikipedia researchers, it's key to the ...

Bots are a useful tool on Wikipedia: they identify and undo vandalism, add links and perform other tedious tasks set by their human masters. But even these automated helpers come into conflict, ...

Wikipedia ' everyone can participate in the editing freely, we are multi-language deployment by translating the English version to be the main. However, in recent years, it has been pointed out that ...

No one saw the crisis coming: a coordinated vandalistic effort to insert Squidward references into articles totally unrelated to Squidward. In 2006, Wikipedia was really starting to get going, and ...

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