Thanks to Cobi, Arkanosis and Andrew West for adding some bots and tools to the census. If you have information about anti-vandalism bots in your local language Wikipedia, please, notice me.<br><br>At the moment, ClueBot NG is the only bot which uses neural networks. The second generation of bots is coming. : O<br>

<br>Regards,<br>emijrp<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/29 emijrp <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:emijrp@gmail.com">emijrp@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

Hi all;<br><br>I&#39;m creating a census[1] with all the anti-vandalism bots in the Wikimedia projects history. I want to research the features and techniques used in all these past years. I need your help for compiling all the nicks of those bots. You can help adding info to the page, but if you don&#39;t have free time for that, write only the nickname and I will retrieve all the available info about the bot.<br>


<br>With the currently available information, I have found two main categories of anti-vandalism bots:<br>* First generation: simple scoring systems based in regular expressions and heuristics.<br>* Second generation: machine learning, neural networks and bayesian filters.<br>


<br>Have you got suggestions to this classification? What is your opinion about the past and the future of anti-vandalism bots? Can FlaggedRevs and similar approaches make these bots useless?<br><br>Thanks,<br>emijrp<br>

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[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Anti-vandalism_bot_census#Census" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Anti-vandalism_bot_census#Census</a><br>
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