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Re: Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles by lake99 on Sunday May 12, 2013 @03:56AM (#5693537)
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.

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Re: Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles by simonw on Sunday May 12, 2013 @04:21AM (#5693589)
It does - Wikipedia has a small army of bots which monitor and in some cases automatically revert changes.

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_N...

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Re: Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles by tekacs on Sunday May 12, 2013 @04:49AM (#5693641)
To be fair, given that this only shows unregistered edits, the proportion of malevolent edits seems... unsurprising?
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Re: Live map of recent changes to Wikipedia articles by ekr on Sunday May 12, 2013 @04:19AM (#5693585)
It has some kind of anti-spam bots (and other uses). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
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