[Foundation-l] Anti-vandalism bot census

[emijrp]

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.

At the moment, ClueBot NG is the only bot which uses neural networks. The
second generation of bots is coming. : O

Regards,
emijrp

2010/11/29 emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com>

> Hi all;
>
> I'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't have free time
> for that, write only the nickname and I will retrieve all the available info
> about the bot.
>
> With the currently available information, I have found two main categories
> of anti-vandalism bots:
> * First generation: simple scoring systems based in regular expressions and
> heuristics.
> * Second generation: machine learning, neural networks and bayesian
> filters.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
> emijrp
>
> [1]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Anti-vandalism_bot_census#Census
>