Bots on Wikipedia Wage Edit Wars Between Themselves That Las

[badmachine]

Bots on Wikipedia Wage Edit Wars Between Themselves That Last For Years
George Dvorsky, Gizmodo, Thursday February 23, 2017
http://gizmodo.com/bots-on-wikipedia-wage-edit-wars-between-themselves-tha-1792680922

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.

Wikipedia's future, ladies and gentlemen. Bots fighting with other bots.

[Flip Flopped]

The inhuman future of WP editing is bots despite the possibly true claim that WP editor numbers climbed then flatlined after the historic low.

Thanks for catching this, badmachine.

[ericbarbour]

And then it will REALLY start to decline. Because the bots are run by insiders, and the insiders are all "untouchable", so we have yet to see the real warfare. There is no better way to turn whatever "good Wikipedia content" there is, into hash.

First the bots fight, then the pizza-gobbling nerds who run the bots will fight. Then the septic tank explodes.

[Soham321]

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