Bots Edit Wikipedia - Artificial Intelligence At Work?

@thebigk • Oct 12, 2024

Oct 12, 2024

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I stumbled upon a Wikipedia article that says not only humans, but the bots edit Wikipedia as well. Specially coded computer programs keep track of the changes made by human editors to Wikipedia and are intelligent enough to keep track of who's doing what and where.

Read: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18892510" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Meet the 'bots' that edit Wikipedia - BBC News</a>

I've been wondering, what kind of algorithms are being put to use? Can we have a small scale version of a similar bot written for CE as well? Let's say a bot that catches SMS lingo being used in posts on CE? Anyone wants to attempt it?

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Kaustubh Katdare

@thebigk • Jul 26, 2012

Bumping up the thread. No one to take up the challenge? It's going to be a simpler spell checker bot; I guess; or it's more complicated?
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Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 • Jul 26, 2012

Good idea. However, SMS english may get enabled in the spell checker too.
I remember Reader's Digest reporting on machine translation from English to Russian of the line from the Bible: 'the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak' came out as: 'the vodka is good but the meat has gone bad'.
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Harshad Italiya

@harshad-ukH5ww • Jul 27, 2012

That's Amazing ! Yes if we can add such bot for CE we can remove all the sms texts entered by user and this can be your Final year project Computer Science and IT Engineers.
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KenJackson

@kenjackson-mBf7HF • Jul 28, 2012

Is this a <a href="https://www.vbulletin.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">vBulletin 5 Connect, The World's Leading Community Software</a> forum site? Or is it <a href="https://www.phpbb.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">phpBB • Free and Open Source Forum Software</a>? <a href="https://www.simplemachines.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Simple Machines Forum - Free & open source community software</a>? Other?

I thought surely vBulletin would offer something like a bot for their customers, but I looked briefly and didn't see anything. That's surprising.

The Wikipedia format software itself is freely available for download. Though I guess they wouldn't make the bot code available, since it would help the bad guys circumvent it. Still, I'd be surprised if there's really nothing already available.

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