[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and robots

Carcharoth carcharothwp at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 10 01:06:13 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Bob the Wikipedian
<bobthewikipedian at gmail.com> wrote:

> They could probably set up listeners to monitor for activity like that
> and enforce a 1RR-- where if two bots successively reverted one another,
> a counseling agent would slip in and request they stop. The counseling
> agent would bring in another agent designed to evaluate which edit was
> probably correct using complex AI, and the two bots which had been
> involved would be denied access if they attempted to perform the same
> action again.

It all sounds very logical, unemotional, and efficient. Not Wikipedia, then!

Carcharoth



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