[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[geni]

On 2/10/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/02/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't know if you read SEO forums much but text generation systems
> > are getting quite good. How certain are you that you can pick up 100%
> > of them within 150 edits? Heck write a wikification bot and even fewer
> > will be picked up.
>
>
> I must say I hadn't heard of that one. Do you have any pointers to
> somewhere I can read up on this?
>

markov text generator

The tactics tends to be regarded as black hat so a lot of stuff isn't
public and at present direct scraping wikipedia and the like is more
popular

> I still aspire to an English Wikipedia where any editor can become
> admin unless unsuitable - rather than the present utterly broken RFA
> process. Meh!
>

That will first require a more effective way of neutraliseing problem admins.

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geni